LEGAL APPROACHES TO TERRORISM AS A FORM OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS : THE REAGAN AND BUSH ADMINISTRATIONS (Collaborative Research)

A rule of international law does not and cannot exist under a decentralized power structure of international relations. Without "an international legal order", nations struggle for applying and interpreting legal rules according to their own national interests. This form of power struggle is most salient in legal approaches to terrorism as an instrument of developing nations in being engaged in political and military confrontation with Western Powers. This article analyzes the irreconcilable nature of the approaches since the 1980s onward, or the eras of the Reagan and Bush administrations, and identifies which legal approach to prevail in the post-Cold War transformatiou of international politics.3KJ00004082728論文Articledepartmental bulletin pape