Baaz, Mikael Law and Politics in the International Society (9172236868)

With the ultimate aim of seeking to understand law and politics in the current international society, this book contains theoretical discussions of the entanglements between law and politics as well as analyses of a number of international political and legal issues. The book not only introduces the most productive theories of international law and politics existing today, but it also seeks to integrate some of them into a multi-disciplinary framework to study law and politics in the current international society. The book also introduces a method for practical legal problem-solving: “the method of social welfare”. More detailed analyses are provided of, among other things, (the differences between) American and European foreign policy, human rights, humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect. The various issues are analyzed from historical, contemporary and forward-looking perspectives.

Mikael Baaz is an Associate Professor in International Law as well as an Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies. He currently works as a Senior Lecturer in International Law at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg. Baaz is also an affiliated Senior Research Fellow in Political Science at the University West. He is the author of several books, including, The Use of Force and International Society, 2nd edition (Jure, 2017) and, together with Mona Lilja and Stellan Vinthagen, Researching Resistance and Social Change: A Critical Approach to Theory and Practice (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017). Baaz is also widely published internationally and his papers appear in the following journals: Alternatives: Global, Local, Political; Asian Journal of International Law; Asian Politics and Policy; Conflict and Society; European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology; Global Public Health; International Journal of Constitutional Law; International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society; International Studies Review; Journal of Civil Society; Journal of International Criminal Justice; Journal of International Relations and Development; Journal of Law and Society; Journal of Political Power; Journal of Refugee Studies;