The Riddle of All Constitutions: International Law, Democracy, and a Critique of Ideology

by Susan Marks

Overview

Drawing on an broad range of source material, Marks 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 they provoke. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198267980
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/13/2000
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Susan Marks is a lecturer in law at Cambridge University

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Preface to a Critique of International Legal Ideology2. International Law and the ‘Liberal Revolution'3. Limits of the Liberal Revolution I. Low Intensity Democracy4. Limits of the Liberal Revolution II: Pan-National Democracy5. International Law and the Project of Cosmopolitan Democracy6. Afterword: Critical Knowledge

Editorial Reviews

"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."

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