Bulletin n. 3/2014
February 2015
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Roda Mushkat
    Constructivist Constructions of International Environmental Governance Regimes - The Southeast Asian Context Review Essay
    in Melbourne Journal of International Law , vol. 15, issue 1 ,  2014 ,  252-270
    Positive international legal theory is a highly contested intellectual territory, where competing scientific paradigms unrealistically seek to achieve a position of total dominance. This analytically rigorous and carefully researched study marshals valuable empirical evidence to lend direct support to one of them, constructivism, and indirectly to closely related schools of thought, such as transnational legal process theory. However, the factual foundation methodically built suggests that the explanatory power of this particular conceptual scheme is rather limited and that it cannot shed adequate light on formal and informal international cooperation, as witnessed in a specific Association of Southeast Asian Nations environmental context, without being effectively coupled with polar opposites in the rationalist space.
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