the article cited below makes for positive law, similar to positive economics it laissez faire law.
all analytically is undetermined, all in reality is overdetermined. contradictions pile up in thought only, in real life they get resolved.
Ian Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[earlier I wrote:]
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From: "Ian Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Since when have aggressors given a damn about international law? What's
> going on now, a cynical, nihilistic operationalizing of the inversion of
> Alexander Wendt's "Anarchy is What States Make of It"--see Mearsheimer's
> "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics" page 368-- just goes to show how
> epistemically precarious/flaccid the notion of international law is if
> there is no transnational Leviathan with the material means to inflict
> harm on aggressors with minimal risk to it's own powers; leaving aside
> whether the Leviathan would be/become malign in its own right.
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The following link is an example of the problems of indeterminacy,
contradiction, arbitrariness and authority in inter! national law with
respect to intervention[s].
http://rideau.carleton.ca/philosophy/cusjp/v20/n1/guidice.html
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