Présentation de l'éditeur : "International law has played a crucial role in the construction of imperial projects. Yet within the growing field of studies about the history of international law and empire, scholars have seldom considered this complicit relationship in the Americ…
This book offers the first exploration of the deployment of international law for the legitimization of U.S. ascendancy as an informal empire in Latin America. This book explores the intellectual history of a distinctive idea of American international law in the Americas, focusi…
This book argues that laws spread around the world not through elite networks of technocrats, but through domestic democracy. It combines public opinion experiments, election campaign data legislative debates, and policy adoption patterns to document how international models gen…
This book argues that laws spread around the world not through elite networks of technocrats, but through domestic democracy. It combines public opinion experiments, election campaign data legislative debates, and policy adoption patterns to document how international models gen…
This book argues that laws spread around the world not through elite networks of technocrats, but through domestic democracy. It combines public opinion experiments, election campaign data legislative debates, and policy adoption patterns to document how international models gen…
"Why do law reforms spread around the world in waves? Leading theories argue that international networks of technocratic elites develop orthodox solutions that they singlehandedly transplant across countries. But, in modern democracies, elites alone cannot press for legislative …
"Why do law reforms spread around the world in waves? Leading theories argue that international networks of technocratic elites develop orthodox solutions that they singlehandedly transplant across countries. But, in modern democracies, elites alone cannot press for legislative …
"Why do law reforms spread around the world in waves? Leading theories argue that international networks of technocratic elites develop orthodox solutions that they singlehandedly transplant across countries. But, in modern democracies, elites alone cannot press for legislative …
This book argues that laws spread around the world not through elite networks of technocrats, but through domestic democracy. It combines public opinion experiments, election campaign data legislative debates, and policy adoption patterns to document how international models gen…
"His common way of conceiving of constitution-making, however, is simply wrong. It ignores the long history of transnational flow of ideas about constitutions and how they should be made. Indeed, the very idea of a formal written constitution is foreign in many parts of the worl…
"His common way of conceiving of constitution-making, however, is simply wrong. It ignores the long history of transnational flow of ideas about constitutions and how they should be made. Indeed, the very idea of a formal written constitution is foreign in many parts of the worl…
La 4e de couverture indique : "Are constitutional rights based exclusively in uniquely American considerations, or are they based at least in part on principles that transcend the boundaries of any particular country, such as the requirements of freedom or dignity? By viewing co…