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| International Law in the 21st Century: Rules for Global Governance
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Author: Christopher C. Joyner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Release Date: 2005-02-28
ISBN-10: 0742500098
ISBN-13: 9780742500099
List Price: $41.95
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In the freshest international law text in 20 years, Christopher C. Joyner offers a critical assessment of international legal rules in the early 21st century as they are applied by governments to the real world. Looking at concepts and principles, processes and critical problems, Joyner steers clear of an old-time case method approach, preferring to treat issues thematically. He shows the challenges of international law in terms of peace, security, human rights, the environment, and economic justice. Particular features of the book include engaging vignettes, clearly defined key terms, and special coverage of emerging topics including common spaces; international criminal law; rules, norms, and regimes; and trade relations and commercial exchange. Through it all, Joyner maintains an intent focus on the role of the individual in the evolving international legal order.
Obfuscation of the subject appears to be the authors goal
| Customer Rating: | Dr. Joyner, while having a great academic reputation, especially in the area of international law and Antarctica, appears to have either thrown this text together simply to produce one, or allowed his publisher's editors to so maul his text as to make if a painful experience to read.
In topic after topic, the discussion of the material is overly redundant and circular in nature. Either Dr. Joyner believes his readership is so woefully ignorant as to require the same idea be restated several paragraphs in a row in order for them to achieve comprehension, or he was given bad editorial advice to do so. Whatever the reason may be, much of the text is subjected to this treatment... paragraph after paragraph of circular discussion around an idea that could just have easily been stated clearly in a single, concise paragraph, if not sentence. This makes the reading of his text laborious at best. It also detracts from its primary purpose, the educating of students in the subject of International Law. The treatment is such that one has to question whether the text could have been more concisely rendered as a pamphlet.
I do not say these things lightly, nor with malice towards Dr. Joyner. I compared this text to a 1st Edition copy of Law Among Nations: An Introduction to Public International Law by Dr. Gerhard von Glahn (deceased), Professor Emeritus in Political Science, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Minnesota (now in its 7th edition; http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0205189946/002-9957070-9244802?v=glance). Dr. von Glahn's text, by contrast, was very concise and clear.
Perhaps this edition of International Law in the 21st Century: Rules for Global Governance is just a dud; an early stage of a work in progress. I cannot, however, find any redeeming quality about the book that would warrant recommendation of it beyond that is is a newer publication then most of its peer texts. Unfortunately, its recent publication is not enough to overcome its obvious communications flaws. Hopefully this will be remediated in future editions. |
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