The World Crisis and International Law - Paul B. Stephan

The World Crisis and International Law

The Knowledge Economy and the Battle for the Future

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Buch | Softcover
296 Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-32099-3 (ISBN)
28,65 inkl. MwSt
Paul B. Stephan uses the current problems facing the international legal system as a lens to explore the origins of contemporary political and economic disruptions and the resulting challenges to democracy and the world economy.
The knowledge economy, a seeming wonder for the world, has caused unintended harms that threaten peace and prosperity and undo international cooperation and the international rule of law. The world faces threats of war, pandemics, growing domestic political discord, climate change, disruption of international trade and investment, immigration, and the pollution of cyberspace, just as international law increasingly falls short as a tool for managing these challenges. Prosperity dependent on meritocracy, open borders, international economic freedom, and a wide-open Internet has met its limits, with international law one of the first casualties. Any effective response to these threats must reflect the pathway by which these perils arrive. Part of the answer to these challenges, Paul B. Stephan argues, must include a re-conception of international law as arising out of pragmatic and limited experiments by states, rather than as grand projects to remake and redeem the world.

Paul B. Stephan, the John C. Jeffries, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, has taught and written about international law and the world economy. He has taught and published in China, Russia, Europe, Australia, and Israel. He has also served in the US Departments of the Treasury, State, and Defense, and advised the IMF, the World Bank, and the OECD.

1. The crisis arrives; Part I. The Rise and Fall of Liberal Internationalism and the New World Order: 2. The end of communism and the embrace of the Washington Consensus (1989–2000, Part I); 3. New international organizations and their ambitions (1989–2000, Part II); 4. Cracks in the foundation and system shocks: terror, the great recession, and the Arab Spring (2000–15); 5. Crises come in waves: national populism, the poisoning of cyberspace, a new cold war, and the pandemic (2015–21); Part II. The Knowledge Economy: World Conquest and Creative Destruction: 6. Knowledge, technological innovation, and wealth; 7. Law and the knowledge economy: what the winners want; 8. Losing and location in the knowledge economy: the view from the Hinterlands and the Chinese alternative: Part III. Battlegrounds: 9. International security, cyber disruption, and human rights; 10. Immigration; 11. Trade and investment; 12. The treason of the clerks: judicial revolts against international law; Part IV. International Law Futures: 13. Dancing along the precipice; 14. What may endure; 15. Conclusion.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 228 mm
Gewicht 440 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10 1-009-32099-8 / 1009320998
ISBN-13 978-1-009-32099-3 / 9781009320993
Zustand Neuware
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