TY - BOOK AU - Bowring,Bill TI - The degradation of the international legal order: the rehabilitation of law and the possibility of politics SN - 9781904385363 U1 - 341 21E PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Routledge-Cavendish KW - International law KW - Philosophy KW - Human rights KW - Political aspects KW - Iraq War, 2003- KW - Habermas, Jürgen N1 - Notes bibliogr; Positivism versus self-determination in international law -- The degradation of international law -- The legality of the invasion and occupation of Iraq -- After Iraq : international law in crisis -- Ideology in international law, and the critique of Habermas -- A substantive account of human rights -- Human rights as the negation of politics? -- Post-modern reconstructions of human rights -- Against methodological individualism -- The scandal of social and economic rights -- Legal transplantation and human rights ER -