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Commentary To Professor Stephen D. Krasner, Jürgen Kurtz
Commentary To Professor Stephen D. Krasner, Jürgen Kurtz
Michigan Journal of International Law
Comment on Professor Stephen D. Krasner's The Hole in the Whole: Sovereignty, Shared Sovereignty, and International Law
Nations Without States: Political Communities In The Global Age, Montserrat Guibernau
Nations Without States: Political Communities In The Global Age, Montserrat Guibernau
Michigan Journal of International Law
The nation has become one of the most contested concepts of our times. The multifarious definitions of the nation focus on cultural, political, psychological, territorial, ethnic, and sociological principles according to different scholars, politicians, and political activists willing to shed some light into such a disputed term. Their lack of agreement suggests a major difficulty in dealing with such a complex phenomenon. The crux of the matter probably resides close to the link which has been established between nation and State, and to the common practice of using the nation as a source of political legitimacy. To be or not …
Custom, Power, And The Power Of Rules, Michael Byers
Custom, Power, And The Power Of Rules, Michael Byers
Michigan Journal of International Law
This article begins by explaining briefly the differing perspectives which these two general categories of scholars - those who study international law and those who study international relations - have of international society generally, and of law and power more specifically. This article exposes the fact that power is an important but largely unnoticed subject of much international legal discourse and also canvasses attempts by international relations scholars to incorporate law into their understandings of power.