This timely book considers the ways in which international law, unlike domestic law, does not make itself known in a formalized, hierarchical structure, but nee

Offers a new perspective on international law and international legal argumentation: to what event is international law a belief system?

Explores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law's history and its relation to empire and capitalism.

Concepts shape how we understand and participate in international legal affairs. They are an important site for order, struggle and change. This comprehensive a

Offers an accessible discussion of conceptual and moral questions on international law and advances the debate on many of these topics.