Arctic legal tides : the politics of international law in the Northwest Passage ...
The politics of international law should be seen as a constant condition of international affairs within which the practices of international law and world politics unfold. This work aims to uncover several ways to understand the politics of international law, and in particular, to understand how la...
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ftdatacite:10.14288/1.0071080 2023-08-27T04:07:52+02:00 Arctic legal tides : the politics of international law in the Northwest Passage ... Nankivell, Justin DeMowbray 2010 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0071080 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0071080 en eng University of British Columbia PhysicalObject CreativeWork ArchivalObject article 2010 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0071080 2023-08-07T14:24:23Z The politics of international law should be seen as a constant condition of international affairs within which the practices of international law and world politics unfold. This work aims to uncover several ways to understand the politics of international law, and in particular, to understand how law and politics interact within extended foreign policy sequences. These long foreign policy episodes are generally centered on a particular component, or body of, international law. Yet they are also subject to numerous elements and functions of international law which give form and content to a state’s policy development. These include complex compliance decisions, repeated public justifications over the terms of legal validity, learning what the law requires to meet thresholds of compliance, and states’ engaging in forms of legal rhetoric known as creative legal arguments: legal justifications that attempt to change international law when states face difficult policy choices. These various areas of international ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Northwest passage DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Northwest Passage |
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The politics of international law should be seen as a constant condition of international affairs within which the practices of international law and world politics unfold. This work aims to uncover several ways to understand the politics of international law, and in particular, to understand how law and politics interact within extended foreign policy sequences. These long foreign policy episodes are generally centered on a particular component, or body of, international law. Yet they are also subject to numerous elements and functions of international law which give form and content to a state’s policy development. These include complex compliance decisions, repeated public justifications over the terms of legal validity, learning what the law requires to meet thresholds of compliance, and states’ engaging in forms of legal rhetoric known as creative legal arguments: legal justifications that attempt to change international law when states face difficult policy choices. These various areas of international ... |
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