 The significance of international cooperation in international lawPrisca Feihle () Chapter 2 in An International Human Rights Law of Cooperation, 2025, pp 15-33 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: This chapter reflects on the meaning of international cooperation for international law and how international law and international cooperation interrelate. It unfolds how a positive perception of international cooperation permeates international legal scholarship, most famously illustrated by Wolfgang Friedmann's narrative of an ‘international law of co-operation’ in the Changing Structure of International Law (1964). In contrast, the chapter advocates an open understanding of ‘international cooperation’, not ascribing to it some sort of inherent legitimacy, but also not merely underlining its negative effects. This allows revealing the tension that international cooperation is both the foundation and an object of regulation for international law. On this basis, the chapter stresses the need to continuously re-evaluate the standards international law provides for international cooperation in view of changing normative expectations combined with evolving practices of inter-state interaction. Keywords: International cooperation; Changing structure of international law; International human rights law; Legal values; Interdependence; Informalization (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:23412_2 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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