This book presents a critical view of international law as an
argumentative practice that aims to 'depoliticise' international
relations. Drawing from a range of materials, Koskenniemi
demonstrates how international law becomes vulnerable to the
contrasting criticisms of being either an irrelevant moralist
Utopia or a manipulable facade for State interests. He examines the
conflicts inherent in international law - sources, sovereignty,
'custom' and 'world order' - and shows how legal discourse about
such subjects can be described in terms of a small number of
argumentative rules. This book was originally published in English
in Finland in 1989 and though it quickly became a classic, it has
been out of print for some years. In 2006, Cambridge was proud to
reissue this seminal text, together with a freshly written Epilogue
in which the author both responds to critiques of the original
work, and reflects on the effect and significance of his
'deconstructive' approach today.
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