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Part I General Issues, Ch.3 Paradigms and Discourses

John S. Dryzek

From: The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (1st Edition)

Edited By: Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnée, Ellen Hey

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Content type:
Book content
Product:
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law [OSAIL]
Series:
Oxford Handbooks in Law
Published in print:
07 August 2008
ISBN:
9780199552153

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 06 February 2023

Subject(s):
Sustainable development — Environmental disputes
Both paradigms and discourses are a type of inter-subjective understanding that condition individual action, and social outcomes, in the international system no less than elsewhere. They have no formal existence resembling that of organizations, constitutions, laws, and treaties. Yet they can be none the less effective in coordinating the behaviour of large numbers of actors, and this is especially true in a political system as de-centralized as the international one, where formal sources of order are weak. Even in the presence of laws and formal organizations,...
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