Full Description
Expanding upon the normative position of co-progressiveness elaborated in Towards an International Law of Co-progressiveness (Martinus Nijhoff, 2004), this volume explores membership, leadership, and responsibility in the international system and how these matters reflect and inform international law. Issues discussed include: (1) the recognition and role of States, civilizations, and regions in the international system and how these entities are influenced by factors such as declarations of independence, intrinsic and instrumental values, diversity, and public opinion; (2) the distribution of power among States, its legitimacy, and the consequent influence this distribution has on the international system and world politics; and (3) member responsibility for acts of international organizations as well as the possibility of establishing and enforcing universal jurisdiction as a tool for implementing responsibility across the world.
Contents
Notes on Style and Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: The International Law of Co-progressiveness: The Descriptive Observation, the normative Position and Some Core Principles
Part I: Membership
Chapter 2: We Are All "Civilized Nations": Arguments for Cleaning up Article 38(1)(c) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice
Chapter 3: The Kosovo Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice
Chapter 4: The International Law of Co-progressiveness and the Co-progressiveness of Civilizations
Chapter 5: The Role of Law in the Formation of Regional Perspectives on Human Rights and Regional Systems for the Protection of Human Rights
Chapter 6: The Intrinsic and Instrumental Values of Diversity and the Settlement of the Conflicts between Them: Some Philosophical and Legal Considerations
Chapter 7: Public Opinion
Part II: Leadership
Chapter 8: Sovereign Equality of States and the Legitimacy of "Leader States"
Chapter 9: Towards a Harmonious World: The Roles of the International Law of Co-progressiveness and Leader States
Chapter 10: Military Activites in the EEZ: Moving the Debate to Article 59 of UNCLOS
Article 11: Sustainable Development, International Law and China
Chapter 12: The Dynamic Interplay between the Interpreters of Security Council Resolutions
Chapter 13: En Route the the Final Shape of the UNCLOS Dispute Settlement System: Some Pivotal Negotiating Procedural Steps Worthy of Consideration by Future Treaty-makers and Leaders in Treaty-making
Chapter 14: Reform Proposals regarding the International Court of Justice: Final Report for the ILA Study Group on United Nations Reform
Chapter 15: The Presidency of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the "National State Extension" Concern
Part III: Responsibility
Chapter 16: The Responsibility of State Members of an International Organization for Its Conduct as a Result of Membership or Their Normal Conduct Associated with Membership
Chapter 17: 'Member responsibility' and the ILC Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations: Some Observations
Chapter 18: Universal Jurisdiction: Concept, Logic, and Reality
Index
