ABSTRACT

This book critically assesses the impact of Richard A. Falk’s scholarship, which has spanned nearly six decades and addressed key issues at the intersections of international law and relations.

Falk has offered powerful insights on the nature and reach of international law, international relations, and the structure of their respective processes in order to assess the main challenges to the creation of a just "world order," the path-breaking concept which he has helped to develop. Continuing in the critical spirit that has informed Richard’s work as a scholar and a public intellectual, this book reflects a multiplicity of perspectives and approaches in the analysis and assessment of these selected themes.

This volume looks at four key themes of Falk’s work:

• International Law and International Relations Theories and Concepts

• War, Peace, and Human Security

• Social and Political Justice, and

• The Scholar as Citizen and Activist

This will be a useful book for scholars and students of international law, global governance, political theory, and international relations theory, and for those studying human security, international organizations, and transnational activism.

chapter 1|16 pages

Introduction

In Quest of Humane Governance: Richard Falk's Odyssey

part I|126 pages

The Scholarly Quest of Humane Governance

chapter 2|26 pages

From World Order to Militarization to Securitization

Richard Falk's Contribution to a Theory of Postmodern Mobilization

chapter 4|19 pages

Prescience and Principles

Richard Falk's Contributions to the Study and Practice of Human Rights

chapter 6|26 pages

The Resurgence of Hegemonic International Law

Whither Global Law?

part II|116 pages

The Scholar as Public Intellectual and Activist

chapter 9|28 pages

Combating Complacency

The Moral Imperative of Denuclearization*

chapter 10|22 pages

Richard Falk, A Citizen Pilgrim for Palestine

Bearing Witness and the Role of UN Special Rapporteur

chapter 11|14 pages

Falk's Cosmopolitan View of Sovereignty

The Ambition of Necessity to Pursue World Order through Law