Osgoode Hall Law School Library

Subject:

International law.

Title:

Neither justice nor order : reflections on the state of the law of nations / Frans A.M. Alting von Geusau.

Main Author:

Alting von Geusau, Frans Alphons Maria, 1933-

Language:

English

Published:

Wolf Legal Publishers, 2017

Edition:

Third edition.

Series:

Footprints of the twentieth century ; v. 5.

Portion of Title:

Reflections on the state of the law of nations

Summary:

"This fifth and final volume offers a critical assessment of the state of the law of nations. In the twenty first century the world needs true global law anchored in the dignity of the human person rather than weak international law built on the interests of major sovereign states. One hundred years after the outbreak of the Great or First World War in 1914 and twenty-five years after the peaceful end of the Cold War in 1989, little appears to have been learnt from the scale of disasters that befell the world between the assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 and the annexation of Sebastopol in 2014. The failure to learn from history largely comes from unconverted political leaders and ideologies of progress. The birth of modern international law, assumed to have taken place in 1648, was no moment of progress, nor was the Congress of Vienna in 1815. The peace of Westphalia reduced the law of nations to interstate law."

Physical Description:

333 pages ; 24 cm.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789462404205

9462404208

Publication:

[Nijmegen] : Wolf Legal Publishers, 2017.

Copyright Notice Date:

©2017

• Justice, diversity and the rule of law
• Reflections on the history of international law
• International law and human dignity
• International law and the common good
• International law and state sovereignty
• International law and the use of force
• The situation in the Middle-East
• The art of diplomacy
• International law and the pursuit of justice
• Footprints of the twentieth century.