Of Missionaries, Fanatics, and Lawyers

Some Thoughts on Investment Disputes in the Americas

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9548979
AutoresWilliam D Rogers (autor de correspondencia)
Año1978
Volumen72
Número1
Páginas1-16
Fecha de publicación1978-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of International Law (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-9300 • E-ISSN: 2161-7953
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2199700
OpenAlexW2327470450
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas2

Sir Harold Nicholson had it about right. Diplomacy, he said, is not a system of moral philosophy; it is, as Sir Ernest Satow defined it, “the application of intelligence and tact to the conduct of official relations between the governments of independent States.” The worst kind of diplomatists are missionaries, fanatics and lawyers; the best kind are the reasonable and humane sceptics. Investment disputes have attracted their fair share of missionaries, fanatics, and lawyers in the Western Hemisphere. There may be evidence, though, that some relatively reasonable sceptics are making their voices heard

Diplomacy · Epistemology · Ethnology · Investment (military · Political science · Politics · Skepticism · Sociology · Tact · Western hemisphere · International Arbitration and Investment Law · Law · Philosophy · Psychology