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Strategically Created Treaty Conflicts and the Politics of International Law Surabhi Ranganathan (University of Cambridge)

Strategically Created Treaty Conflicts and the Politics of International Law By Surabhi Ranganathan (University of Cambridge)

Strategically Created Treaty Conflicts and the Politics of International Law by Surabhi Ranganathan (University of Cambridge)

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Treaty conflicts are often deliberately created to challenge or change legal regimes. What does this say about the role of law in international affairs? This book examines modern legal thought and practice, with detailed studies of conflict dynamics in nuclear governance, international criminal justice and the law of the sea.

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Strategically Created Treaty Conflicts and the Politics of International Law by Surabhi Ranganathan (University of Cambridge)

Treaty conflicts are not merely the contingent or inadvertent by-products of the increasing juridification of international relations. In several instances, states have deliberately created treaty conflicts in order to catalyse changes in multilateral regimes. Surabhi Ranganathan uses such conflicts as context to explore the role of international law, in legal thought and practice. Her examinations of the International Law Commission's work on treaties and of various scholars' proposals on institutional action, offer a fresh view of 'mainstream' legal thought. They locate, in a variety of writings, a common faith in international legal discourse, built on liberal and constructivist assumptions. Ranganathan's three rich studies of treaty conflict, relating to the areas of seabed mining, the International Criminal Court, and nuclear governance, furnish a textured account of the specific forms and practices that constitute such a legal discourse and permit a grounded understanding of the interactions that shape international law.

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'The best doctrinal work I have read this year ... a technically highly accomplished work of legal scholarship, showing great mastery not only of the law of treaties but also of international criminal law, the law of the sea and disarmament law. ... Ranganathan demonstrates that the political space left open by the indeterminacy of the Vienna Convention's rules on treaty conflict can be used by states for strategic purposes, in order to change or adapt existing regimes. One of its more pleasant qualities is that it takes the critical revolution in international law seriously, while showing that it is possible to do highly insightful doctrinal work that is aware of international law being highly political and politicized.' Jan Klabbers, European Journal of International Law
'Strategically Created Treaty Conflicts and the Politics of International Law is a welcome addition to the study of treaty conflicts and to the study of the relationship between international law and international relations. The three case studies show how ambitious multilateral regimes bend in the face of political realities. At the same time, they reveal how multilateral agreements become part of the geopolitical landscape that shapes the actions and legal norms of even the most powerful of nations. They further show how the craft of international law often involves not only 'speaking law to power' but also serving as a bridge to resolve conflicting positions. By inviting us to think of treaty conflict not only in terms of direct conflicts between mutually exclusive treaty obligations but also in terms of overall conflict in effect, Ranganathan provides an illuminating account of treaty conflict and the dance between law and power in practice.' Sabrina Safrin, European Journal of International Law

About Surabhi Ranganathan (University of Cambridge)

Surabhi Ranganathan is a University Lecturer in International Law and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Foreword James Crawford; Part I. Introduction: 1. Strategically created treaty conflicts; Part II. International Law Thought: 2. Writing the 'principle of political decision' into the law of treaties; 3. The idea of effective implementation of treaties; Part III. Treaty Conflicts in Practice: 4. Notions of ocean: the dispute over deep seabed mining; 5. Courting the United States? The International Criminal Court and Article 98 Agreements; 6. Fissions in the nuclear order: the India-US nuclear deal and the nuclear governance regime; Part IV. Conclusion: 7. The politics of international law; Appendices.

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NLS9781107618497
9781107618497
1107618495
Strategically Created Treaty Conflicts and the Politics of International Law by Surabhi Ranganathan (University of Cambridge)
Surabhi Ranganathan (University of Cambridge)
Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
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Cambridge University Press
2016-11-17
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