Law without Force

This study proposes a new basis for international law. The author rejects a moral basis for international law, advocating instead the substitution of a functional one. Philosophy, sociology and legal theory are all brought to bear on the question, what law best suits the modern world.

Gerhart Niemeyer, Michael Henry

Introduction the Unreality of International Law and the Unlawfulness of International Reality; I: The Function of Law in International Politics; Historical Introduction: A Genealogy of International Law; 1: Law in the Interdynastic Politics of Absolutism; 2: The Role of International Law During the Period of Liberalism and Imperialism; 3: The Place of Law in the World Politics of Today; II: Legal Theory and Political Reality; Sociological Introduction: The Connotations of Politics; IV: Moral Idealism and Political Realism in International Law; 5: The Sociological Background of International Law; 6: Making International Law Work; III: A Reconstruction of International Law; Philosophical Introduction: The Significance of Function; 7: The Notion of the State; VIII: The Conception of The Legal Rule; 9: Organization or Orientation