Das Völkerrecht als Mittel zur Lösung ethnischer Konflikte

The confrontation with the results of the realist school of thoughts in international relations led to a change of perspective in international legal studies. Scholars now increasingly commit themselves to the study of the real-world impact of international law. The present book contributes to this by drawing on the results of empirical research on justice and ethnic conflict in order to identify the influence that international law exerts on the prevention and solution of such conflicts. For this purpose those results are set into a decision-theoretical framework that allows for determining the effect of the relevant legal rules' normative content as well as of their normative design. The author is working on questions concerning the effectiveness of legal norms beyond traditional enforcement mechanisms.