International Law as the Law of Collectives: Toward a Law of People

Contents: Preface Law, people, peoples From Hobbes to Rawls: covenants, social contracts, and the law of peoples Historiography of the present: collectives, colonies and the chronicle of international law Grouphood, rights and Waldrona (TM)s warning: respecting the collective Statehood, consent, complicity: defining the collective From peoples to people? Self-determination, identity, territory Cultures, attachments, minorities, movements International relations and international law: rethinking statehood and sovereignty Toward a law of people References Index.