Law at the Vanishing Point: A Philosophical Analysis of International Law

1. Skepticism towards international law -- 2. Conceptualizing international law -- 3. Voluntarism and natural law -- 4. International legal personality -- 5. Humanitarian intervention -- 6. Empiricism and the reality of international law -- 7. Pinochet and Nicaragua -- 8. The prescriptive realists.

This volume examines the philosophical foundations of modern international law using the tools of Anglo-American legal theory and western political thought. It provides a fascinating new challenge to those who reduce international law to either ethics or politics and provides a critical new appraisal of its power as an independent force in human social relations