International Legal Theory: Essays and engagements, 1966-2006 [Paperback]

Nicholas Onufs International Legal Theory: Essays and Engagements 1966-2007 is a collection of the authors articles and book reviews from the period, including some previously unpublished material. The book records the authors efforts to address important problems in international legal theory and to engage other scholars who were also addressing these problems. As well as demonstrating Onufs own constructivist contribution to the theoretical dimension of international law and international relations, each piece is preceded by a short introduction which highlights the wider themes and developments which have occurred in the field of international law in the last forty years.

1. Introduction. Theory as Autobiography  Part One: Legal Theory and Its Limits, 1966-1980  2. Changing International Law (1966)  3. Professor Falk on the Quasi-Legislative Competence of the General Assembly (1969)  4. The Principle of Nonintervention, the United Nations and the International System (1970)  5. Further Thoughts on a New Source of International Law: Professor DAmatos Manifest Intent (1971) 6. Peremptory Norms of International Law: Their Source, Function and Future (1973, with Richard K. Birney)  7. Law-Making in the Global Community (1974)  8. Reprisals: Rituals, Rules, Rationales (1974)  9. Law and Lawyers in International Crises (1975)  10. International Legal Order as an Idea (1978)  11. International Codification: Interpreting the Last Half-Century (1980)  Part Two: Social Theory and the Linguistic Turn, 1980-1993  12. Review, Negara, The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali, by Clifford Geertz (1982)  13. Review, Law, Morality, and the Relations of States, by Terry Nardin (1984, with Professor Nardins RepllS+