The Politics of International Law: U.S. Foreign Policy Reconsidered by David P. Forsythe

David Forsythe views politics as the driving force behind legal interpretation. Examining a series of controversies in public policy during the Reagan Administration - the clash of Star Wars with the ABM treaty, use of the Contras against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, the invasion of Grenada, refugee policy in the Western Hemisphere, and the payment of dues to the United Nations - he inquires into the interplay of international law and US foreign policy, stressing the. political factors that make for obedience to, or violation of international law. Excerpt.

Intended for students in international relations, international law, and US foreign policy courses, this book demonstrates how international law really functions in foreign policymaking in Washington. David Forsythe views politics as the driving force behind legal interpretation. Examining a series of controversies in public policy during the Reagan Administration - the cl Intended for students in international relations, international law, and US foreign policy courses, this book demonstrates how international law really functions in foreign policymaking in Washington

Intended for students in international relations, international law, and US foreign policy courses, this book demonstrates how international law really functions in foreign policymaking in Washington.

2 W. Michael Reisman & Andrew R. Willard (ed., International Incidents: The Law that Counts in World Politics (1988). For an incisive critique, see Bowett, Derek . International Incidents: New Genre or New Delusion?, 12 Yale J. Int'l L. (1987). 3 According to Wiliard, a meaningful exercise of the ‘incidents approach’ amounts to 25 separate steps, grouped together under 6 different headings. Wiliard, ‘Incidents: an essay in method’, in Reisman & Wiliard, supra note 2. 4 See, especially, Henkin's classic How Nations Behave, (1979), 2nd e. . David Forsythe views politics as the driving force behind legal interpretation

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The occasions of exception-such as Libya and Syria-provide case studies for critical analysis and allow the authors to look to emerging dominant powers, especially China, for indicators of new challenges to the commitment to universal human rights and humanitarian affairs in the context of the ongoing clash between liberalism and realism.