ABSTRACT
The topics focused on in this book are meeting places for many disciplines and the perspectives of those disciplines other than international law ‘itself’ must not be entirely overlooked.Indeed valuable insights may be gained from the ways in which scholars in sister disciplines define the place of international law in the larger conceptual landscape. Some examples of this will help to clarify the challenges, and the opportunities, to which this book is intended as a response. In addition this wider perspective enlivens the question of sovereignty which is central to all these disciplines. Questions about international law may well, at least at times, be too important to be left to the international lawyers.
