Résumé :
Two notions constantly re-emerge in present-day research on issues arising under the general heading of constitutionalization of international law : sovereignty and cosmopolitanism. The former is regarded as being rather an impediment to the projects of international constitutionalism, the latter as a distant future goal, but both to be reinterpreted and readapted to modern realities and aspirations of researchers engaged in the theorization of international constitutionalism.
The three books under review, which appeared during the last three years, represent an excellent illustration of the relationship and tensions existing between sovereignty, cosmopolitanism, and the project of a constitutionalization of international law.
Les trois livres commentés sont les suivants :
- Ulrich Haltern. Was bedeutet Souveränität ? Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2007.
- Toni Erskine. Embedded Cosmopolitanism. Duties to Strangers and Enemies in a World of ‘Dislocated Communities’. Oxford : Oxford University Press/British Academy, 2008. Pp. 292.
- Jeffery L. Dunoff and Joel P. Trachtman (eds.). Ruling the World ? Constitutionalism, International Law, and Global Governance. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.


