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  • International Cooperation under the Human Right to Science

    Edited by Samantha Besson, Katja Achermann ...
    Series series Elgar Studies in Human Rights
    This book explores the importance of international cooperation in realising the ‘human right to science’ as enshrined in Article 15(1)(b) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The need to reawaken this right has been acknowledged in recent scholarship. However, the role of international scientific cooperation for the effective realisation of the right has ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Democratic Representation in International Organizations

    Edited by Samantha Besson ...
    Series series ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory
    International organizations (IOs) play a central role in contemporary international law-making: they institutionalize most of the processes through which international law is adopted today. From the perspective of the democratic legitimacy of international law, this raises the question of the conditions under which those IOs may be regarded as democratic representatives of their Member States' ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • Consenting to International Law

    Edited by Samantha Besson ...
    Series series ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory
    The obligations stemming from international law are still predominantly considered, despite important normative and descriptive critiques, as being 'based' on (State) consent. To that extent, international law differs from domestic law where consent to the law has long been considered irrelevant to law-making, whether as a criterion of validity or as a ground of legitimacy. In addition to a ... Read more

    $116.49 USD

  • Theories of International Responsibility Law

    Edited by Samantha Besson ...
    Series series ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory
    There is no issue more central to a legal order than responsibility, and yet the dearth of contemporary theorizing on international responsibility law is worrying for the state of international law. The volume brings philosophers of the law of responsibility into dialogue with international responsibility law specialists. Its tripartite structure corresponds to the three main theoretical ... Read more

    $114.99 USD

  • Reconstructing the International Institutional Order

    Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 3 December 2020

    by Samantha Besson ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    States are no longer alone on the international scene. Other institutions intervene alongside States, and even sometimes in their place, such as international organizations, multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations, regions or global cities. Still, one would look in vain for clear indications in international law, including for the basic principles of an “international law of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Deliberative Democracy and its Discontents

    Edited by Jose Luis Marti, Samantha Besson ...
    Series series Applied Legal Philosophy
    Drawing on political, legal, national, post-national, as well as American and European perspectives, this collection of essays offers a diverse and balanced discussion of the current arguments concerning deliberative democracy. Its contributions' focus on discontent, provide a critical assessment of the benefits of deliberation and also respond to the strongest criticisms of the idea of democratic ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Sources of International Law

    Edited by Jean d'Aspremont, Samantha Besson, Sévrine Knuchel ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The question of the sources of international law inevitably raises some well-known scholarly controversies: where do the rules of international law come from? And more precisely: through which processes are they made, how are they ascertained, and where does the international legal order begin and end? This is the static question of the pedigree of international legal rules and the boundaries of ... Read more

    $212.39 USD

  • The Philosophy of International Law

    Edited by Samantha Besson, John Tasioulas ...
    International law has recently emerged as the subject-matter of an exciting new field of philosophical investigation. The Philosophy of International Law contains 29 cutting-edge essays by leading philosophers and international lawyers, all published here in English for the first time, that address the central philosophical questions about international law. The volume's overarching theme is the ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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    Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy

    by Gabriel Rockhill ...
    In Counter-History of the Present Gabriel Rockhill contests, dismantles, and displaces one of the most widespread understandings of the contemporary world: that we are all living in a democratized and globalized era intimately connected by a single, overarching economic and technological network. Noting how such a narrative fails to account for the experiences of the billions of people who lack ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The History of Development

    From Western Origins to Global Faith

    by Gilbert Rist ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    Series series Development Essentials
    In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history. He traces it from its origins in the Western view of history, through the early stages of the world system, the rise of US hegemony, and the supposed triumph of third-worldism, through to new concerns about the environment and globalization.Assessing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Bourdieu in the City

    Challenging Urban Theory

    by Loïc Wacquant ...
    Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist. He invites us to explore the city through what he calls the trialectic of symbolic space (the mental categories through which we perceive and organize the world), social space (the distribution ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • We, the People of Europe?

    Reflections on Transnational Citizenship

    by Étienne Balibar ...
    Translated by James Swenson ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    étienne Balibar has been one of Europe's most important philosophical and political thinkers since the 1960s. His work has been vastly influential on both sides of the Atlantic throughout the humanities and the social sciences. In We, the People of Europe?, he expands on themes raised in his previous works to offer a trenchant and eloquently written analysis of "transnational citizenship" from the ... Read more

    $34.59 USD