The Trump administration and international law /
Will Donald trump international law? Since Trump's administration took office in January 2017, this question has haunted almost every issue area of international law. This book, by one of our leading international lawyers - a former Legal Adviser of the U.S. State Department, former Assistant S...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Will Donald trump international law? Since Trump's administration took office in January 2017, this question has haunted almost every issue area of international law. This book, by one of our leading international lawyers - a former Legal Adviser of the U.S. State Department, former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and former Yale Law Dean - argues that President Trump has thus far enjoyed less success than many believe, because he does not own the pervasive "transnational legal process" that governs these issue areas. This book shows how those opposing Trump's policies in his administration's first two years have successfully triggered transnational legal process as part of a collective counterstrategy akin to Muhammad Ali's famous "rope-a-dope." The book surveys many fields of international law: immigration and refugees, human rights, climate change, denuclearization, trade diplomacy, relations with North Korea, Russia and Ukraine, and America's "Forever War" against Al Qaeda and the Islamic State and its ongoing challenges in Syria. This tour d'horizon illustrates the many techniques that other participants in the transnational legal process have used to blunt Trump's early initiatives across a broad area of issues. While this counterstrategy has been wearing, the book concludes that the high stakes, and the long-term implications for the future of global governance, make the continuing struggle both worthwhile and necessary |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190912215 0190912219 9780190912192 0190912197 |