Presenting fresh perspectives on a range of contemporary issues in international law, this book draws on the work of major contributors to legal and political theory. Arguing that international law lacks the vocabulary to deal with the collective dimension and therefore perpetuates an individualistic vocabulary, the book develops and articulates a more appropriate collective approach for public international law. In doing so, it reframes longstanding problems such as the conflict between self-determination and the integrity of states and the effects and the limits of state sovereignty in an increasingly globalized world.

Dr John R. Morss is Senior Lecturer, School of Law, and member of the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization, at Deakin University, Australia.

Preface, 1 Law, People, Peoples, 2 From Hobbes to Rawls: Covenants, Social Contracts and the Law of Peoples, 3 Historiography of the Present: Collectives, Colonies and the Chronicle of International Law, 4 Grouphood, Rights and Waldron's Warning: Respecting the Collective, 5 Statehood, Consent, Complicity: Defining the Collective, 6 From Peoples to People? Self-determination, Identity, Territory, 7 Cultures, Attachments, Minorities, Movements, 8 International Relations and International Law: Rethinking Statehood and Sovereignty, 9 Toward a Law of People, References, Index