The law and politics of international regime conflict

Culture is one thing and varnish is another --Regime conflict as goal conflict --Regime conflict as institutional conflict and power struggle --Regime conflict as conflict among legal rules --The (ir)relevance of international law for conflict management --From legal unity to communicative compatibility --Conflict management through legal interpretation --Conflict management through priority rules.

Conflict can occur when a body of law regulating one aspect of international activity does not correspond with the rules of another. This book uses trade in cultural products to illustrate that, rather than being a question of accidental overlap, such conflicts stem from different regimes having fundamentally different goals.