Introduction

Thomas Dietz is Assistant Professor of Law and Politics at the University of Muenster (the town where the Treaty of Westphalia arguably ushered in the age of the Nation-State and international law as we know it). He steps into this palace of political-economic orthodoxy and patiently dismantles it in his new book, Global Order Beyond Law: How information and communication technologies facilitate relational contracting in international trade (Hart Publishing). Professor Dietz's conclusions are unlikely to be universally welcome among the great and good of international ...