Richard Falk: A Key Thinker in International Law

I found this very interesting presentation by Professor Richard Falk on International Law and the Changing nature of Security at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This presentation was organised by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation on 25 October 2002 . Prof Richard Falk discusses the origin of modern state and issues relating to maintanance of internal order and security amidst the rise of non-state actors and terrorist groups posing threat to sovereign States.



It is not an overstatement when Martin Griffiths in Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations (Routledge, 1999) says that Falk has demonstrated the importance of international law in the study of international relations, not merely as a static body of rules, but as crucial and dynamic instrument of social change.