POL208Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: International Political Economy, Economic Reconstruction, Global Brain
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A body of rules that binds states and other agents in world politics in their relations w/ one another and is considered to have the status of law. One: il is a body of rules linked together by a unifying set of ideas. I. e. contemporary il unified by idea of sovereignty. *primary: negative injunctions prohibited: do not do x". *secondary: directive and require that actors must do y". Like the constitution that structures making of primary rules. Constitutive il: sovereignty (states are sovereign within their territory; right to non-intervention by polities of other states), self -determination, non-intervention. Fundamental il (procedural): basic norms of co-existence spells out the rule of diplomacy & cooperation, the nature of contractual international law almost all il are based on treaties; core is the treaty that established united nations. Regulative il: basic behaviour of states respecting territory of neighbouring states.
