The Legal Community of Mankind : A Critical Analysis of the Modern Concept of World Organization

Examines the historic background of the concept of world organizations such as the League of Nations and the United Nations. Also looks at the concepts which recur when the needs of some world organization is made clear. Preface Foreword Contents Introduction Part One: The Concept of Natural Law and the Growth of the Science of International Law 1. The Unity of Western Christendom in the Late Middle Ages and Its Disappearance 2. Grotius’ Theory of The Legal Community of Mankind Without a Central Organ 3. Pufendorf’s Concept of Free and Equal States Coexisting in a State of Nature and Wolff’s Doctrine of a Fictitious World State 4. The Positivist Theory of International Law As Law Created by Sovereign Civilized States Part Two: The Concept of the Community of Mankind, the Theory of the Natural Interests of Men, and the Belief in Progress 5. The Doctrine of Universal Reasonable Standards of Government 6. The Doctrine of the Natural Interests of Men 7. The Idea of Progress and The Belief in the Power of Public Opinion 8. The Nineteenth-Century Concept of the Undesirability of a World State 9. The Combination of the Positivist Theory of International Law With the Progressive Concept of a Democratic Union of Free Nations Part Three: The League of Nations Concept 10. The First World War and the Rise of the League of Nations 11. The Idea of Collective Security 12. The League As Universal Quasi Government 13. The League As a Center of Nonpolitical Activities 14. The Modern Theory of Universal Law and the League of Nations; Legal Monism and the Primacy of the Law of Nations Some Conclusions: United Nations and World State Notes