On the Sociology of International Law and International Society

ISBN-13: 9789401502689 / Angielski / Miękka / 1966 / 118 str.

Bart Landheer

Opis

The academic or scientific occupation with international relations is not always an encouraging task. At times one gets an image of the enormous psychic and physical forces which operate in the international realm, and it then seems that the role of the publicist is almost a negligible one. If one, in addition, arrives at the conclusion that human social action is not really a volitional process, then there is indeed ample room for pessimism and despair. Nevertheless, in the complexity of our consciousness, the different elements of which life is made of blend into a unity of which the idea is as much a part or even more so than the deed or action. The stress on action expresses the crudeness of our times but the idea has been much more the motivation of history and its cohesive force over long periods. Action in terms of force is never in itself the entire solution because it carries no conviction or understanding, at least unless its role is a very moderate one.

Spis treści

I Introduction.- II The basis of and reason for a sociological approach.- III The method of the sociological approach.- IV International law and sociology.- V The “sociological jurists”.- VI The theory of international relations.- VII The sociological theories.- I. The philosophical systems of sociology.- II. The middle and small range theories.- VIII The concepts of formal and informal structure.- IX The reality structure of world society.- X The formal structure of world society.- XI The interaction between formal and informal structure.- XII The “change” factor in world society.- XIII About the image of the future.