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The Risks of International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2008

FLEUR JOHNS  and
WOUTER G. WERNER
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The past few decades have witnessed a proliferation in the writings on risk and uncertainty. Led by the work of writers such as Beck, Luhmann, Ewald, and Giddens, scholars across the humanities and social sciences have been engaged in reflections on the ways in which our understanding of risk structure informs decision-making and the attribution of responsibility. One of the central topics in this body of literature is the transformation of the concept of risk in postmodern societies.

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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 783 - 786
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Copyright © Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law 2008

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References

1 Ewald, F., ‘Insurance and Risk’, in Burchell, G., Gordon, C., and Miller, P., The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality (1991), 203Google Scholar.

2 See, e.g., Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods, The Remarkable Story of Risk (1996).

3 See especially F. Ewald, L'Etat Providence (1986). See also the remark by Hacking, who argued, ‘It is a glib but true generalization that proletarian revolutions have never occurred in any state whose assurantial technology was working properly’. I. Hacking, ‘How Should We Do the History of Statistics?’, in Burchell, Gordon, and Miller, supra note 1.

4 U. Beck, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (2005).

5 F. Ewald, ‘Two Infinities of Risk’, in B. Massumi (ed.), The Politics of Everyday Fear (1993), 221–8.

6 See Beck, supra note 4; U. Beck, Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk (2002); U. Beck, World Risk Society (1999).

7 Beck, supra note 4, at 162.