The Trump Administration and International Law

Harold Hongju Koh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-091218-5 (ISBN)

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Is President Donald Trump destroying the global order? The conventional wisdom is yes. But this book argues that he is having much less success than is commonly recognized because our international relations are embedded in a legal order that he poorly understands, and does not control.

Will Donald trump international law? Since Trump's Administration took office, this question has haunted almost every issue area of international law. One of our leading international lawyers-a former Legal Adviser of the US State Department, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Yale Law Dean-argues that President Trump has thus far enjoyed less success than many believe, because he does not own the pervasive "transnational legal process" that governs these issue areas. This book shows how those opposing Trump's policies during his administration's first two years have successfully triggered that process as part of a collective counter-strategy akin to Muhammad Ali's "rope-a-dope." The book surveys immigration and refugee law, human rights, climate change, denuclearization, trade diplomacy, relations with North Korea, Russia and Ukraine, America's "Forever War" against Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, and the ongoing tragedy in Syria. Koh's tour d'horizon illustrates the many techniques that players in the transnational legal process have used to blunt Trump's early initiatives. The high stakes of this struggle, and its broader implications for the future of global governance-now challenged by the rise of populist authoritarians-make this exhausting counter-strategy both worthwhile and necessary.

Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law, former Dean (2004-09) and co-founder of the Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 1985. He served as Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State from 2009-13; Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from 1998-2001; and Attorney-Adviser, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, from 1983-85. He has testified regularly before Congress and has argued at the U.S. Supreme Court, the International Court of Justice and many other domestic and international courts. He has received seventeen honorary degrees, more than thirty human rights awards, and the Wolfgang Friedmann Prize from Columbia Law School and the Louis B. Sohn Award from the American Bar Association's International Law Section for his lifetime achievements in international law.

DEDICATION
Introduction: Trumping International Law?

Chapter I: Trump's "Strategy" and the Counter-Strategy of Resistance
Chapter II: The Counter-Strategy Illustrated: Transnational Legal Process in Action
Chapter III: Resigning Without Leaving
Chapter IV: Countries of Concern
Chapter V: America's Wars
Chapter VI: What's at Stake

Afterword
Biographical Note
Acknowledgements

End Notes
INDEX

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	213 x 145 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-19-091218-9 / 0190912189
ISBN-13	978-0-19-091218-5 / 9780190912185
Zustand	Neuware