Document Type

Article

Repository Date

2011

Keywords

power, law, international law, actors, New Haven school, McDougal, Reisman, Lasswell, D'Amato, descriptivism

Subject Categories

International Law | Law | Legal Theory

Abstract

Law needs Power for enforcement of its rules; Power utilizes Law for creating conditions of stability that enhance its salience. Yet when the New Haven school tries to include international law in its power-oriented view of international relations, it ends up with a misleading two-dimensional descriptivism.

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