TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stark, Barbara
TI  - International law and its discontents : confronting crises
SN  - 9781107047501
U1  - 341 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Law -- Social aspects
KW  - Law -- Economic aspects
KW  - Comparative law
KW  - International law and human rights
KW  - LAW -- International
N2  - "In Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud argued that civilization itself is the major source of human unhappiness, inhibiting instincts and generating guilt. In Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz shows how the "economic architecture" that produced globalization has also driven the backlash against it. This book brings together some of international law's most outspoken "discontents;" those who situate their malaise in international law itself. Their shared objective is to expose international law's complicity in the ongoing economic and financial global crises and to assess its capacity - and its will - to constructively address them. Some, like Freud, view that which holds us together as an inevitable source of discontent. Others, like Stiglitz, draw on the energy of the backlash. How have these crises affected particular groups, sovereign states, and international law itself? How have they responded? When does crisis serve as a catalyst, and for what? "
ER  -