Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • The "Irrelevance" of International Law and Organizations
  • The Real Origins of International Legal Positivism
  • The Achievements of International Legal Positivism
  • International Legal Positivism after the Outbreak of World War I
  • Functionalism as a Substitute for Positivism
  • A Functionalist Analysis of International Law and Politics
  • The Function of Decision Performed by International Law and Organizations
  • The Function of Adjudication as Performed by the U.N. Security Council
  • The Function of Resolution as Performed by the U.N. Security Council
  • The Function of Redefinition as Performed by the U.N. General Assembly
  • The Increments of International Law and Politics
  • A New Philosophy for American Foreign Policy
  • The Definitional Context of the Iranian Hostages Crisis
  • A Functionalist Approach to U.S. Crisis Management Decision Making
  • The Carter Administration's Responsibility for the Death of Detente
  • Restoring Persian Gulf Security
  • The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
  • The Future of Nuclear Arms Control between the Superpowers
  • International Lawlessness in the Caribbean Basin
  • Conclusion: The Existential Need to Struggle for International and Organizations
  • Machiavellianism Destroys Constitutionalism
  • Notes
  • Index