Description
With an interdisciplinary perspective, Alexander Orakhelashvili compares and contrasts the methods of international legal reasoning with international relations as a discipline, focusing on timeless and central issues that connect the past, present and future. The book examines, through the use of both disciplines' methodology, some more specific areas such as public authority, global space, and peace, with the overall outcome that political contempt towards the international legal system could have unexpected and costly adverse political consequences.
Examining a broad range of theories and literature, International Law and International Politics will be an invigorating read for academics, students and practitioners of international law, international relations, politics, and diplomacy.
About the Author
Alexander Orakhelashvili, Professor, School of Law, University of Birmingham, UK
Reviews
'Alexander Orakhelashvili's International Law and International Politics is a courageous endeavour to find common ground between the disciplines of international law and international relations. While both disciplines study the same phenomena, in terms of methodological approach, they may sometimes seem worlds apart. Intriguingly, Dr Orakhelashvili shows that the dominant theoretical streams in international law and international relations, namely legal positivism and political realism, are in fact based on the same rationales.' -- Cedric Ryngaert, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Book Information
ISBN 9781803928524
Author Alexander Orakhelashvili
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
