International Law and its Discontents: Confronting Crises

308 Pages·2015·1.344 MB·English

by  Barbara Stark

INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ITS
DISCONTENTS
In Civilization and ItsDiscontents, Sigmund Freudargued
thatcivilizationitselfisthemajorsourceofhumanunhap-
piness,inhibitinginstinctsandgeneratingguilt.InGlobal-
ization and Its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz shows how the
“economic architecture” that produced globalization has
also driven the backlash against it. This book brings
togethersomeofinternationallaw’smostoutspoken“dis-
contents,” those who situate their malaise in international
lawitself.Theirsharedobjectiveistoexposeinternational
law’s complicity in the ongoing economic and financial
global crises and to assess its capacity – and its will – to
addressthemconstructively.
Some,likeFreud,viewthatwhichholdsustogetherasan
inevitable source of discontent. Others, like Stiglitz, draw
on the energy of the backlash. How have these crises
affected particular groups, sovereign states, and inter-
nationallawitself?Howhavetheyresponded?Whendoes
crisisserveasacatalyst,andforwhat?
Barbara Stark is Professor of Law at Hofstra University.
She has published dozens of articles in the California and
UCLA law reviews and the Yale, Stanford, Virginia, Van-
derbilt,Pennsylvania,andMichiganjournalsofinternational
law,amongothers.SincejoiningtheHofstrafacultyin2005,
shehaspublishedfivebooks.

International Law and Its
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CONFRONTING CRISES
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CONTENTS
List of Contributors .................................... page vii
Acknowledgments ........................................... xi
Introduction: The Discontents Confront Crisis
BarbaraStark ............................................... 1
PART I THE ENVIRONMENT
1 BingeDevelopment inthe Age of Fear: Scarcity,
Consumption,Inequality,and the EnvironmentalCrisis
IleanaPorras ........................................... 25
2 InternationalLaw as a War Against Nature? Reflections
on the Ambivalence of International EnvironmentalLaw
KarinMickelson ......................................... 84
PART II GENDER
3 Decoding Crisisin International Law:A Queer Feminist
Perspective
DianneOtto ........................................... 115
4 The Incredible Shrinking Women
BarbaraStark ......................................... 137
PART III SOVEREIGN STATES
5 Corporate Power and Instrumental States: Toward a
Critical Reassessmentof the Role of Firms, States, and
Regulation inGlobal Governance
DanDanielsen ......................................... 171
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6 GlobalEconomicInequalityand the Potentialfor Global
Democracy: A Functionalist Analysis
AndrewStrauss ........................................ 194
PART IV INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL CRISIS
7 A Bolivarian Alternative? TheNew Latin American
Populism Confronts the Global Order
BradR.RothandSharonF.Lean ......................... 221
8 GlobalCrisis and the Law of War
JeanneM.Woods ....................................... 249
Index ..................................................... 287
CONTRIBUTORS
Dan Danielsen is Professor of Law at Northeastern University. Professor
Danielsen’s current research focuses on the role of corporate actors in
transnational regulation and governance. His work identifies regulatory
strategies to shape and harness corporate power to improve social welfare
andincreaseeconomicdevelopmentaroundtheglobe.Recentpublications
include: “Economic Approaches to Global Regulation: Expanding the
International Law and Economics Paradigm,” J. Int’l Bus. & L., 10
(2011), p. 23; “Local Rules and a Global Economy: An Economic Policy
Perspective,”TransnationalLegalTheory,1(2010),p.49.
SharonF.LeanisAssociateProfessorandGraduateDirectorintheDepart-
mentofPoliticalScience atWayneStateUniversity. HerspecialtyisLatin
American politics. Her current research considers the impact of account-
abilityinstitutionssuchashumanrightscommissionsandelectionadminis-
trationbodiesonthequalityofdemocracy.SheisauthorofCivilSocietyand
ElectoralAccountabilityinLatinAmerica(PalgraveMacmillan,2012),which
includesachapterontheelectoralunderpinningsofVenezuela’sBolivarian
Revolution.SheiscontributingcoeditorwithThomasLeglerandDexterS.
BonifaceofPromotingDemocracyintheAmericas(JohnsHopkinsUniversity
Press,2007).
KarinMickelsonisAssociateProfessorattheUniversityofBritishColumbia
FacultyofLaw.HerresearchactivitiesfocusontheSouth-Northdimension
of international law, and she has been actively involved in TWAIL (Third
World Approaches to International Law). She has analyzed the failure of
internationalenvironmentallawtorespondtotheconcernsoftheSouthin
“South,North,InternationalEnvironmentalLaw,andInternationalEnvir-
onmental Lawyers,” Yearbook of International Environmental Law, 11
(2000), p. 52; recent publications include “The Maps of International
Law: Perceptions of Nature in the Classification of Territory,” Leiden
Journal of International Law, 27 (2014), p. 621, and “Between Crisis and
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viii List of Contributors
Complacency:SeekingCommitmentinInternationalEnvironmentalLaw,”
NetherlandsYearbookofInternationalLaw,44(2013),p.139.
Dianne Otto holds the Francine V. McNiff Chair in Human Rights Law at
MelbourneLawSchoolandistheDirectoroftheInstituteforInternational
LawandtheHumanities(IILAH).ProfessorOtto’sresearchinterestsinclude
addressing gender, sexuality, and race inequalities in the context of inter-
national human rights law, the UN Security Council’s peacekeeping work,
thetechnologiesofglobal“crisisgovernance,”andotherthreatstoeconomic,
social,andculturalrights,aswellasthetransformativepotentialofpeople’s
tribunalsandotherNGOinitiatives.RecentpublicationsincludeRethinking
Peacekeeping,GenderEqualityandCollectiveSecurity(editedwithGinaHeath-
cote, Palgrave, 2014) and three edited volumes, Gender Issues and Human
Rights (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013). She also authored a bibliographic
chapter, “Feminist Approaches,” in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Inter-
nationalLaw,ed.TonyCarty(OxfordUniversityPress,2012).
Ileana Porras istheAssociateDeanofAcademicAffairsattheUniversityof
MiamiSchoolofLaw.ProfessorPorrasteachesinthefieldsofinternational
law (including international legal theory, European Union law, the inter-
national law of sustainable development, international environmental law,
andtradeandenvironment)andpropertylaw.ShewasthefoundingDirector
of the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes and has been a
Visiting Professor at the Watson Institute–Brown University, Sandra Day
O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, and Boston College
Law School. Her scholarship has been primarily concerned with issues of
violence, colonialism, trade, and the environment. Most recently her work
hasfocusedonthesubjectofthecityandsustainabledevelopment.Sheisthe
authorof“TheCityandInternationalLaw:InPursuitofSustainableDevel-
opment,” Fordham Urban Law Journal, 36 (2009), p. 537; “Appropriating
Nature:Commerce,PropertyandtheCommodificationofNatureintheLaw
of Nations,” Leiden Journal of International Law, 27:3 (September 2014),
pp.641–60;“LiberalCosmopolitanismorCosmopolitanLiberalism?Notes
fromInternationalLaw,”inParochialism,Cosmopolitanism,andtheFounda-
tionsofInternationalLaw,ed.MortimerSellers(CambridgeUniversityPress,
2011);and“ConstructingInternationalLawintheEastIndianSeas:Prop-
erty,Sovereignty,CommerceandWarinHugoGrotius’‘DeIurePraedae’–
The Law of Prize and Booty, or ‘On How to Distinguish Merchants from
Pirates,’”BrooklynJournalofInternationalLaw,31(2006),p.741.
BradR.RothisProfessorofLawandPoliticalScienceatWayneStateUniver-
sity. His scholarship applies political theory to problems in international