From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal ArgumentDrawing from a range of materials, Martti Koskenniemi demonstrates how international law becomes vulnerable to the contrasting criticisms of being either an irrelevant moralist Utopia or a manipulable fa ade for State interests. He examines the conflicts inherent in international law sources, sovereignty, 'custom' and 'world order and shows how legal discourse about such subjects can be described in terms of a small number of argumentative rules.