Abstract
This Article is a study of the intellectual sensibilities of the largely liberal mainstream international post-World War II intelligentsia. My aim is to articulate the network of ideas-sometimes critical, sometimes utopian, sometimes descriptive-which, in the international arena, produce this rather common sense of technocratic inevitability and of the need for political renewal. Although the combination of technocratic strength and political weakness is, in some sense, undeniable as a description of the contemporary international system, I end up skeptical of both those who would right the balance by rejuvenating the international political machinery and those who would have us bow to the inevitability of the technocratic. As I read the consciousness of the international intelligentsia, these common sense observations and criticisms have somehow grown up together as part of a common puzzle, as if there were a division of labor between two sensibilities-one which holds out the political as a promise, and another which holds out the technocratic as a fact.
Recommended Citation
Kennedy, David
(1994)
"The International Style in
Postwar Law and Policy,"
Utah Law Review: Vol. 1994:
No.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol1994/iss1/3