{"product_id":"the-fog-of-law-9780804771757","title":"The Fog of Law","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen and why are international rules binding? Focusing on questions of state security. This title considers the nature of obligation in international law. In so doing, it challenges the prevailing theories of obligation based on natural law or positive law approaches. It argues for a pragmatist approach to international law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Why do states obey some international legal rules and ignore others? In this compelling new book, Professor Michael Glennon argues that neither of the two conventional approaches to international law, naturalism or positivism, can explain the puzzle of state obligation . . . Although undoubtedly of great value to scholars, this concise and highly readable argument for a new understanding of international law may be even more important to the politicians and diplomats whose actions shape the international legal order.\"—\u003ci\u003eHarvard Law Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Fog of Law \u003c\/i\u003e represents Glennon's ambitious effort to synthesize his formidable body of scholarship on legal pragmatism in order to comprehensively reconceptualize international law as an institution . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Fog of Law\u003c\/i\u003e succeeds as a powerful deconstructionist critique of the present state of international security law.\"—\u003ci\u003eYale Journal of International Law\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Glennon has long been an eloquent critic of traditional approaches to international law derived from idealistic, universalistic, and moralistic tenets. About the legality of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, for example, he has advanced a decidedly skeptical view of international law. In this landmark book, Glennon lays out his alternative take.\"—G. John Ikenberry, \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Michael Glennon is the most articulate advocate of legal pragmatism since Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. \u003ci\u003eThe Fog of Law\u003c\/i\u003e provides a rigorous theoretical basis for a recommendation that the UN Charter's rules on use of force be declared in desuetude, and sheds light on the proposed law of aggression and other disputed issues. No defender of legal universalism can afford to ignore the challenge of this book.\" —Pierre Hassner, Research Director Emeritus, Sciences Po, Paris\u003cbr\u003e\"At a time when many seek peace and security through treaties, statutes, and UN Security Council resolutions, Glennon wisely reminds us that what matters most is not how much law statesmen create, but how much they actually follow.\" —Charles Lane, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A most timely contribution that provokes important reflections, whatever one's perspective on the rule of law or the limits of international law. This book deserves to be read widely in the United States and, even more so, beyond its shores, to understand the politics of pragmatism.\"—Philippe Sands,University College London","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405590143319,"sku":"9780804771757","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-fog-of-law-9780804771757","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}