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INTERNATIONAL LAW, US POWER: THE UNITED STATES\' QUEST FOR LEGAL SECURITY
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Introduction: beyond the myth of the golden age
Perceived dualisms in the nature of US engagement with international law
The myth of the golden age
From Bush to Obama: continuity versus change
1: The US quest for legal security
International law and US power
The US quest for legal security
1. The United States has defended its own legal and political systems against external interference via law. This can be referred to as \'defensive legal security\' 2. The United States has used legal mechanisms to influence the law and policy choices of other states. This can be referred to as \'offensive legal security\'How has the United States pursued its quest for legal security?
International law and the rise of the United States
1. The United States stepped on to the world stage
2. International law, as we know it, took shape
3. Increased international law activity in the United States
The First World War to the present
Is the pursuit of legal security unique to the United States?
Is legal security a form of \'new security\'?
Conclusions. 2: The US pursuit of legal security through the evolution of the international law of dispute resolutionThe United States and nineteenth-century arbitration
The 1794 Jay Treaty
The 1872 Alabama Arbitration
The influence of the US peace movement
The 1897 US-UK Treaty of Arbitration (Olney-Pauncefote Treaty) and the beginning of the \'special agreement\' provision
The Permanent Court of Arbitration
The United States and regional developments
Other moves towards a world court
Pre-war conciliation and arbitration treaties
The Permanent Court of International Justice. US reaction to the PCIJThe International Court of Justice
Compromissory clauses in post-1945 treaties
US participation in key developments since the end of the Cold War
The International Criminal Court
The dispute resolution body of the World Trade Organization
Techniques by which to minimize the legal security threat posed by an unfavourable decision of an international court or tribunal
Conclusions
3: The US pursuit of legal security through the evolving regime relating to the use of force
US objectives in relation to international law and the use of force. The situation prior to the development of an international law on the use of forceUS contributions to the law of neutrality
US avoidance of treaties of alliance
US leadership in the early steps towards limiting the initiation of hostilities
The inter-war US peace movement and the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War (Kellogg-Briand Pact)
Neutrality, self-defence, and US entry into the Second World War
Planning the United Nations
The UN Charter as a means of ensuring the three US legal security objectives in relation to the use of force
Post-war treaties of collective self-defence.