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Law in an Emerging Global Village: A Post-Westphalian Perspective. By Richard Falk. Ardsley NY: Transnational Publishers, Inc., 1998. Pp. xviii, 224. Index. $95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1999

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* Codification Division, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations. The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Organization.

1 Aristotle, Ethics, in The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics 25, 125 (J. A. K. Thomson trans., Penguin Books, 1955) (1953).

2 H. C. G. Matthew, Gladstone 1809–1874, at 81 (1986).

3 E. M. Hugh-Jones, Woodrow Wilson and American Liberalism 6 (1948).

4 The Peace of Westphalia was a temporary restabilizing of certain aspects of the post-medieval distribution of political power in certain parts of Europe. After 1648, as before, Europe contained polities of great systematic diversity and great political inequality which could be seen as constituting a system, let alone asystem of states, only with the most arbitrary historical hindsight.