The degradation of the international legal order
Subtitle: the rehabilitation of law and the possibility of politics
By: Bill Bowring.
Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Habermas, Jürgen; International law -- Philosophy; Human rights -- Political aspects; Iraq War, 2003-
Notes: Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Positivism versus self-determination in international law; title: The degradation of international law; title: The legality of the invasion and occupation of Iraq; title: After Iraq : international law in crisis; title: Ideology in international law, and the critique of Habermas; title: A substantive account of human rights; title: Human rights as the negation of politics?; title: Post-modern reconstructions of human rights; title: Against methodological individualism; title: The scandal of social and economic rights; title: Legal transplantation and human rights.