Reconstructing Power and Hegemony in Public International Law

Mark Klamberg is a Professor in International Law at the Faculty of Law of Stockholm University in Sweden.Katinka Svanberg is a university lecturer in International Law and received her LL.D. from Stockholm University in Sweden.Love Rönnelid is a Senior Associate Lecturer in International Law at Stockholm University in Sweden.

• Introduction – The World Order at a Crossroads.- Part I. Critical Doctrinalism.- 2. Critical Doctrinalism.- 3. The Exercise of Discretion in International Law – The Different Functions of Constraining Criteria.- 4. Personal Immunity before the International Criminal Court.- 5. Critical Perspectives in the Law of the Sea – the Regulation of Underwater Infrastructure as an Example of Facilitation and Limitation in Parallel.- Part II. Constructing and Redefining Identities.- 6. Re-Defining Statehood in the Face of Rising Sea Levels.- 7. International Law from Below – the case of Klimaseniorinnen, Climate Change, and Human Rights.- 8. An Obligation to Compromise? Between Statehood and Autonomy in the Case of Western Sahara after 2007.- 9. Sweden as a Member of NATO – How Might the Role of International Law in Swedish Foreign Policy Change?.- 10. Sweden, NATO and European Integration.- 11. Neutrality or Equivocation: The Response of African States to the Ukraine Conflict.- Part III. The Role of Scholars: Neutral Commentators or Activists?.- 12. The Role of International Lawyers in a Changing (Physical and Political) Climate.- 13. Problems in Teaching Public International Law.- 14. Karl Olivecrona and the Legal Realist Support for Nazi Germany.- 15. The Charismatic Educators of International Investment Law.- Part IV. The Politics of Historicizing International Law.- 16. Historicizing International Law.- 17. Clausewitz and the Development of International Law.- 18. Uses and Misuses of History in International Criminal Justice and Intertemporal Law.- 19. State Sovereignty and the Origins of International Legal Formalism.- Part V. International law as an Instrument and Part of Warfare.- 20. The Key Role of International Law in Contemporary Conflicts: Challenges and Prospects.- 21. ‘Hybrid’ Naval Warfare and Its Intended Legal Implications?.- 22. Of Legal Cars Leaving Political Factories.- 23. Responsibility and Accountability for Environmental Destruction in Relation to Armed Conflicts: The Case of Ukraine.- 24. Minorities' Aspiration to Self-Determination, a Major Cause of Conflicts in Europe: Do They Shape International Law Towards Remedial Secession for Severely Oppressed Minorities?.- 25. The Vanishing Point of Interpretation: Recognising the Limits to Reconciling the Concurrent Applications of International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law.- 26. Economic Lawfare and WTO Law.- Part VI. Reconsidering Hegemony, Imperialism and Colonialism.- 27. Carl Schmitt in Russia and China: A Revival for Großraum Analytics in International Law?.- 28. Tackling Hazardous Dumping or Legitimizing Toxic Colonialism? – Exploring the Role of International Law in Managing Trade in Hazardous Substances.- 29. A New UN: The Regrettable Irrelevance of the Security Council.- 30. The Aggression Against Ukraine – What are the Lessons for a Future World Order?.- 31. Private Authority in International Finance: The Case of Credit Rating Agencies.- 32. How to Counter Attempts by Authoritarian States to Redefine the Concept of Human Rights: Russia’s Use of Human Rights Justifications in Defense of its Invasion of Ukraine.- 33. Contestation and Legitimacy in Global Governance.