'… Dr Creutz's analysis of the development of state responsibility provides an insightful orientation into understanding why global progress is so difficult to achieve and why a formal doctrine such as state responsibility may never be quite adequate in grasping the complexity of world's injustices.' Tarja Langstrom, Nordic Journal of International Law
1. Contemporary Challenges to State Responsibility; 2. The Evolution of State Responsibility; 3. Problems in the General Law of State Responsibility; 4. Alternative Constructions of Responsibility; 5. Conclusions