Table of contents:
Part One: The Constitutive Process in the Global Community Context;
I. How shell we conceive International Law?;
II. How is International law made and applied?;
III. The interaction between International and national actors in applying International law;
IV. The relation between the lawfulness of actions and the constitution process;
Part Two: Establishment, transformation and termination of states and other actors;
I. Introduction;
II. The policies at stake in establishment, transformation and termination of territorial actors;
III. The role of internal elites;
IV. Role of external elites;
V. Establishment of International actors other than states;
Part Three: Protection and Control of persons:
I. Nationality;
II. Human rights;
Part Four: Allocation, protection and regulation of use of the resources of the planet;
I. General principles governing resource use;
II. Water;
III. Land;
IV. Airspace;
V. Antarctica;
VI. Outer space and celestial bodies;
VII. The environment;
Part five: State responsibility;
I. Introduction;
II. Responsibility for breach of an international legal obligations;
III. Attribution of an act to a state;
IV. Circumstance precluding wrongfulness;
V. Consequences of responsibilities;
VI. Serious violations of peremptory norms;
VII. Invocation of state responsibility;
Part Six: The use of the military instrument;
I. Regulating the use of the military instrument;
II. Regulating the use of economic instruments;
III. Regulating the use of the ideological instrument;
IV. Regulating the use of the diplomatic instrument;
V. Regulating international agreements;
Part Seven: Jurisdiction: Allocations of competence to make and apply law;
I. Introduction;
II. Competence to make law;
III. Competence to apply law;
IV. Recognition and enforcement;
V. Conclusions;
Index.