Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2018
The Internationalists is a fascinating book. The authors present a clear proposition about the significance of the 1928 Pact for the Renunciation of War for a more peaceful world. My focus is on the role of what the authors call outcasting, as an alternative to war. I argue that outcasting is hardly new. It has been known as reprisals or self-help, and currently as countermeasures. It is essential that such measures are brought under international control. What is more, the current US administration is a threat to the current world order. Other states and civil society need to continue to develop internationally controlled sanctions against violations of international law – also in the absence of the USA.
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2 Ibid 273.
3 Ibid 304.
4 Ibid 370. The authors have earlier discussed outcasting in more depth; see Hathaway, OA and Shapiro, SJ, ‘Outcasting: Enforcement in Domestic and International Law’ (2011) 121(2) The Yale Law Journal 252.Google Scholar
5 See (n 1) 375.
6 Ibid 373.
7 Ibid 375.
8 Ibid 375–6.
9 International Law Commission, Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (Yearbook of the International Law Commission, vol II (Pt Two) 2001).Google Scholar
10 Proukaki, EK, The Problem of Enforcement in International Law: Countermeasures, the Non-injured State and the Idea of International Community (Routledge, London, 2010) 85.Google Scholar
11 See (n 1) 378.
12 Ibid 379.
13 See Shaffer, G, Elsig, M and Puig, S, ‘The Extensive (but Fragile) Authority of the WTO Appellate Body’ (2016) 79(1) Law and Contemporary Problems 237, 246 with further references.Google Scholar
14 See (n 1) 382–5.
15 Ibid 381.
16 Chayes, A and Chayes, AH, The New Sovereignty: Compliance with International Regulatory Agreements (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995) 78.Google Scholar
17 See (n 1) 395.
18 Ibid 415.
19 Ibid 416.
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid 417.
22 Ibid.