The Quest for World Order and Human Dignity in the Twenty-first Century : Constitutive Process and Individual Commitment -- Copyright -- Table Of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter I. Breaking out of alice's looking-glass : an introduction -- Chapter II. what is international law attached to? -- A. dimensions of the international process -- 1. The demographic dimension of the world community -- 2. The ethno-cultural dimension of the world community -- 3. The historical dimension of the world community -- 4. The economic, environmental and resource dimension of the world community -- 5. The war system dimension of the world community -- 6. The scientific and technological dimension of the world community -- 7. The dimension of interdependence of the world community -- 8. The "sovereign" State dimension of the world community -- Chapter III. Some propositions and conditioning factors -- A. The organized and unorganized character of international processes -- B. Symbols of authority -- C. Commitments to support arrangements -- D. Interest and common interest -- E. The volatility of international law -- 1. Diversity -- 2. The dialectical character of law -- 3. Judicial anachronism -- 4. Intellectual revisionism -- 5. Incomplete knowledge at the time of judgment -- 6. The dynamism of a science and technologically based civilization -- F. Law's myth systems and operational codes -- G. Power -- Chapter IV. the world constitutive process and its decision functions -- A. Unorganized and non-hierarchical constitutive structures -- B. Ineffective constitutive structures -- C. Effective but limited constitutive structures -- D. Effective constitutive structures -- E. The succession of constitutive processes in international law -- Chapter V. the international lawmaking function.

A. Prescribing as a process of communication -- B. Soft law -- C. Democratization of international lawmaking -- Chapter VI. two modes of principled decision-making -- A. Multiple modes of decision-making -- B. The textual-rule-based mode -- C. The policy-context-based mode -- D. Mapping -- Chapter VII. the international law-applying function -- A. The scope of international application -- B. The promotion function -- C. Differing scopes of authority -- D. Are there constitutional limits? -- E. Consent as a prerequisite for application -- F. Appliers as prescribers -- G. National judges -- H. International arbitrators -- Chapter VIII. Participation arrangements for States : the transformation of self-determination and the emergence of the individual -- A. The process of consociation and the demand for self-determination -- B. International membership criteria : from membership by power to membership by right -- C. The ironic role of uti possidetis -- D. Recognition -- Chapter IX. Sovereignty and human rights : changing the internal arrangements of States by external means -- A. Human rights and regime change -- B. Governments-in-exile -- Chapter X. the actors theory has ignored -- A. Intergovernmental organizations -- B. Transnational corporations or MNCs -- C. Non-governmental organizations -- D. Terrorists and terrorist groups -- E. Gangs -- F. The constellation of members of the international legal system in the future : interdependencies and hybridizations -- Chapter XI. Human rights and individualism : regulating national control and providing international Protection -- A. The globalization of diaspora and its international legal implications -- 1. The globalization of corporate nationals -- 2. Nationality goals for the twenty-first century.

B. International regulation of the competence to ascribe nationality -- C. The international regulation of withdrawal or termination of nationality -- D. Nationality as the basis for protection in external arenas -- E. The function of the exhaustion rule -- F. The calvo clause and the exhaustion rule -- G. The prescription and application of international human rights protections -- 1. The individual as the centre of international human rights law -- 2. Modern human rights applications -- 3. Human rights protections in the twenty-first century -- Chapter XII. contingencies for the use of force : myth system and operational code -- A. Proactive jus ad bellum -- 1. Decolonization wars -- 2. Wars of national liberation -- 3. Assistance in internal wars -- 4. Humanitarian intervention -- 5. Protection of nationals abroad -- 6. Military exercises as a form of threat -- 7. Reprisals -- 8. Spheres of influence -- 9. Regime change -- 10. Just war as a jus ad bellum -- B. Reactive jus ad bellum: self-defence -- Chapter XIII. the use and abuse of force : jus in bello -- A. The modes of force -- B. The reason for compliance -- C. The "MNPD" principles -- D. Absolute and relative prohibitions of the jus in bello -- E. The decay of absolute prohibitions -- Chapter XIV. the penumbra of professionalism : the citizenship role of the international lawyer -- A. Clarifying the common interest : general principles of content and procedure -- 1. The principle of minimum order -- 2. The principle of the avoidance of surplus violence -- 3. The principle of enhancing life opportunities : development -- 4. The principle of contextual integration -- 5. The principle of economy -- 6. The principle of second best solutions -- 7. The principle of environmental conservation -- 8. The principle of sustainable development.

9. The principle of cultivation of rationality -- 10. The principle of valid legal process -- Chapter XV. International law as a profession : dilemmas of identity and commitment -- A. The Shawcross dilemma -- B. The international lawyer's dilemma -- C. Bureaucracy and responsibility -- D. The complexity of international professional responsibility -- E. Some inspiring examples -- F. Alternative futures -- About the author -- Biographical note -- Principal publications.