Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [ix]-xiii) and index.

Contents: The Constitutive process in the global community context -- How shall we conceive international law -- How is international law made and applied -- The Interaction between international and national actors in applying international law -- The Relation between the lawfulness of actions and the constitutive process -- Establishment, transformation and termination of states and other actors: Introduction -- The Policies at stake in establishment, transformation and termination of territorial actors -- The Role of internal elites -- The Role of external elites -- Establishment of international actors other than states -- Protection and control of persons: Nationality -- Human rights -- Allocation, protection and regulation of use of the resources of the planet: General principles governing resource use -- Water -- Land -- Airspace -- Antarctica -- Outer space and celestial bodies -- The Environment -- State responsibility: Introduction -- Responsibility for breach of an international legal obligation -- Attribution of an act to a state -- Circumstances precluding wrongfulness -- Consequences of responsibility -- Serious violations of peremptory norms -- Invocation of state responsibility -- Strategies: Regulating the use of the military instrument -- Regulating the use of the economic instrument -- Regulating the use of the ideological instrument -- Regulating the use of the diplomatic instrument -- Regulating international agreements -- Jurisdiction: allocation of competence to make and apply law: Introduction -- Competence to make law -- Competence to apply law -- Recognition and enforcement -- Conclusion.