Dissertation Abstract
Why should states comply with international law? Despite the growing stability of international legal norms, dominant answers to this question conclude that international law must be radically revised in order to have the authority it claims. But it is not obvious that international law is so deeply flawed as that. As an alternative, I propose that international law is an emergent body of associative obligations that govern a social practice of mutual recognition implicit in the post-Westphalian state system. Such a view could serve as a justification for international law as we find it in practice, not merely as an ideal. This project draws on scholarship across a variety of disciplines including moral and political philosophy, political science, and legal theory.
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