The Riddle of All Constitutions
International Law, Democracy, and the Critique of Ideology
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 March 2003
- ISBN 9780199264131
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages176 pages
- Size 234x156x13 mm
- Weight 285 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The book examines current debates about the emergence of an international legal norm of democratic governance and also considers some of the wider theoretical issues to which those debates give rise. It asks should international law seek to promote democratic political arrangements? If so, on what basis, and using which of the many competing conceptions of democracy?
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The promotion of democracy is today a familiar feature of foreign policy, and an accepted part of the activities of international organizations. Should international law join in this move to promote democratic political arrangements? If so, on what basis, and with which of the many competing conceptions of democracy? Drawing on an eclectic range of source material, the author examines current debates about the emergence of an international legal 'norm of democratic governance', and considers how proposals for such a norm might be rearticulated to meet some of the concerns to which they give rise. She also uses these debates to illustrate some more general points about approaches to the study of international law. In doing so, she seeks to defend an approach to international legal scholarship that takes its cue from the tradition of ideology critique.
Review from previous edition Susan Marks has written a brilliantly provocative and sophisticated book giving a strikingly original and far-reaching slant to her analysis. The Riddle of All Constitutions provides an excellent critique of mainstream proposals about how to bring the pursuit of democracy into the thinking and interpretations of international law.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Preface to a Critique of International Legal Ideology
International Law and the `Liberal Revolution'
Limits of the Liberal Revolution I. Low Intensity Democracy
Limits of the Liberal Revolution II: Pan-National Democracy
International Law and the Project of Cosmopolitan Democracy
Afterword: Critical Knowledge
