Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Michigan Journal of International Law

Abstract

The Security Council has long served as international law's Rorschach test. Operating at the crossroads of international law and international relations, the post-Cold War Security Council embodies both politics and norm-making capabilities. What scholars see when they examine the inkblot which is today's Council says a great deal about contemporary schools of thought. What scholars say the Council is for, also says quite a bit about what they think international lawyering (and international law) is all about. In the process, Council analysts reveal themselves as political "realists," legal "utopians," nationalists, cosmopolitans, institutionalists, humanists, environmentalists, socialists, Europhiles, "Third World" sympathizers, feminists ... and the list goes on. Council scholarship is often (inadvertently) personal, though usually cast as universal.

First Page

221

Volume

17

Publication Date

1996

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