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020			_a9781107047501
082			_a341 _bSTA
100			_aStark, Barbara
245			_aInternational law and its discontents : confronting crises
260			_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2015.
300			_axi,293p.
520			_a"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? "
650			_aLaw -- Social aspects.
650			_aLaw -- Economic aspects.
650			_aComparative law
650			_aInternational law and human rights.
650			_aLAW -- International
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