But if nations are ‘imagined communities’, so are regimes. The emergence of regimes resembles the rise of nation States in the late nineteenth century. Neither of the principal legal responses to regime-formation – constitutionalism and pluralism – is adequate, however. Recently, it has differentiated into functional regimes such as ‘trade law’, ‘human rights law’, ‘environmental law’ and so on that seek to ‘manage’ global problems efficiently and empower new interests and forms of expertise. Public international law hovers between cosmopolitan ethos and technical specialization.
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