United States and International Law

Paradoxes of Support across Contemporary Issues

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AvLucrecia García Iommi,Richard W Maass,Richard W. Maass

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The United States spearheaded the creation of many international organizations and treaties after World War II and maintains a strong record of compliance across several issue areas, yet it also refuses to ratify major international conventions like the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Why does the U.S. often seem to support international law in one way while neglecting or even violating it in another?The United States and International Law: Paradoxes of Support across Contemporary Issues analyzes the seemingly inconsistent U.S. relationship with international law by identifying five types of state support for international law: leadership, consent, internalization, compliance, and enforcement. Each follows different logics and entails unique costs and incentives. Accordingly, the fact that a state engages in one form of support does not presuppose that it will do so across the board. This volume examines how and why the U.S. has engaged in each form of support across twelve issue areas that are central to 20th- and 21st-century U.S. foreign policy: conquest, world courts, war, nuclear proliferation, trade, human rights, war crimes, torture, targeted killing, maritime law, the environment, and cybersecurity. In addition to offering rich substantive discussions of U.S. foreign policy, their findings reveal patterns across the U.S. relationship with international law that shed light on behavior that often seems paradoxical at best, hypocritical at worst. The results help us understand why the United States engages with international law as it does, the legacies of the Trump administration, and what we should expect from the United States under the Biden administration and beyond.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-07-26
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor364
FörlagThe University of Michigan Press
ISBN9780472075416

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1) The United States and International Law: Five Dimensions of SupportLucrecia García Iommi (Fairfield University) and Richard W. Maass (Old Dominion University) Part I: Governing International Relations 2) Enforcing Territorial Integrity: U.S. Support for the Prohibition of Conquest in International LawRichard W. Maass (Old Dominion University) 3) The United States and the International Court of Justice: A Century of Unfulfilled PromiseCharlotte Ku (Texas A&M University)4) Between Formalism and Instrumentalism: The United States and International Law Governing the Use of Inter-State ForceChristian Henderson (University of Sussex)5) The United States and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: Pushing the Limits of the Law Jeffrey S. Lantis (The College of Wooster) 6) The United States and International Trade Law: A Precarious RelationshipJudith L. Goldstein and Christina Toenshoff (Stanford University)Part II: Governing Individuals 7) Human Rights Treaties in the United States: The Case of CEDAWLisa Baldez (Dartmouth College) 8) The United States and the International Criminal Court: Interests, American Exceptionalism, and Why the U.S. Relationship with the ICC Does Not Change Lucrecia García Iommi (Fairfield University) 9) The Double Life of Uncle Sam: The United States and the International Laws Banning Torture and Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi (University of South Florida) 10) Contemporary U.S. Targeted Killing: Expanding the Legal Boundaries of Warfare to Facilitate State ViolenceRebecca Sanders (University of Cincinnati)Part III: Governing the Globe 11) “Exceptional” Leadership: The United States and the International Law of the Sea James Harrison and Oliver Turner (University of Edinburgh) 12) Leader or Laggard? The United States and International Environmental Law Pamela Chasek (Manhattan College) and David L. Downie (Fairfield University) 13) The United States and Cybersecurity Due Diligence: A Continuing Dialogue for International Cyber NormsScott J. Shackelford and Rachel D. Dockery (Indiana University)14) Understanding U.S. Support for International Law Richard W. Maass (Old Dominion University) and Lucrecia García Iommi (Fairfield University)List of Contributors

“The United States and International Law is a superb, systematic, and insightful exploration of one of the most fundamental questions of world order: whether, how, and why the U.S. does—or does not—support the rule of international law. Iommi and Maass provide an elegant framework for analysis, and their excellent team of expert contributors explores the ambivalent relationship of the U.S. to international law in areas as diverse as war, trade, human rights, the environment, and the law of the sea.”—Mark Pollack, Professor of Political Science and Law, Temple University