Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The politics of international law -- Existing approaches -- Realism -- Rationalism -- Constructivism -- Rethinking politics and the demand for institutions -- The nature of politics -- The 'demand for institutions' -- The modern institution of international law -- The constitutional structure of modern international society -- The discourse of institutional autonomy -- The multilateral form of legislation -- The language and practice of justification -- The structure of obligation -- Conclusion -- 3 When states use armed force -- The prohibitions on war and force -- Synopsis -- War -- Force -- Exceptions -- General observations -- Self-defence -- Humanitarian intervention -- Collective security -- Conclusion -- 4 Soft law, hard politics, and the Climate Change Treaty -- The climate change negotiations: some hard questions for neorealists and neoliberals -- Critical constructivism explained and defended -- The critical dimension and the question of legitimacy -- The constructivist dimension and the question of identity -- An integrated critical constructivist framework -- A closer look at the climate change negotiations -- Conclusion -- 5 Emerging customary norms and anti-personnel landmines -- Custom, consent, and constructivism -- Constitutive norms and customary law -- The politics of opinio juris -- Opinio juris and AP landmines -- Empirical indicators of behavioural compliance pulls -- Use -- Conclusions -- 6 International law, politics, and migrant rights -- Internationalisation -- International legal norms -- The results of treaty law and customary international law -- Indirect impact -- Conclusion: the importance and limitations of legal versus social norms -- 7 The International Criminal Court.

Law, politics, and persuasion in the ICC negotiations -- Legal argumentation -- Actors, interests, and identity -- Legal and political claims -- The role of the UN Security Council -- The proprio motu prosecutor -- Jurisdiction and state consent -- Complementarity and its limits -- Systemic arguments -- The nature of international law and legal institutions -- International law and national interest -- Conclusion -- 8 The Kosovo bombing campaign -- Law as rules or process? -- 'Operation Allied Force': a model of civilian protection in war? -- Resolving law's indeterminacy over Kosovo? -- Conclusion -- 9 International financial institutions -- The legal framework regulating the IFIs -- Politics and the changing role of the IFIs -- The IFIs and good governance -- Conclusions -- 10 Law, politics, and international governance -- Rules, dispute resolution, and institutional change -- Institutions -- Actors and action -- Dispute resolution and governance -- Triadic dispute resolution and governance -- The judicialisation of the international trade regime -- Normative structure and dispute resolution -- Building the triad -- Triadic governance -- Dispute resolution and normative change in the dyadic context -- Normative change in the dyadic context -- The case of forcible humanitarian intervention -- Rule contexts -- Disputes, discourse, precedent -- Emergence of an argumentation framework -- Conclusion -- 11 Society, power, and ethics -- Society -- Power -- Ethics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.