POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Soft Law, United Nations Human Rights Council, Collective Identity

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 244
• Professor: Fernando Nunez- Mietz

Document Summary

The international system (4): international institutions and state behavior. Further reading: michael barnett and martha finnemore (2004), rules for the world: international. Organizations in global politics, cornell university press: lisa martin and beth simmons (2012), international organizations and institutions, in, carlsnaes, t. risse, and b. simmons (eds. 326-51: beth simmons (2012), international law, in w. carlsnaes, t. risse, and b. simmons (eds. Transaction costs: forum for negotiation, number of players. International law: a body of rules that creates rights and obligations for states (and other actors) International law as a consent-based system of law: sources of international law. International customs inferred consent: the level of legalization of international rules. Obligation + precision + delegation = soft law - hard law. Does international law matter: anarchy, sovereignty, and international law. The 3 rs: violation legitimizes reciprocal violations. Socialization & the internalization of international law. Economic igos world bank, wto, imf. Human rights igos un human rights council.