The revival of comparative international law

If CIL, at least the way I see it, has any specific philosophical-methodological starting point, it is realism in the sense that the picture that the ideology of the universality that international law offers does not seem to explain the reality of international law in a fully satisfactory way. Yet, I am convinced that this kind of merging of perspectives of law, history, and sociology is absolutely necessary for developing an honest and realistic picture of how international law actually works in the contemporary world, not just in the west. [...]CIL is a project that is culturally open, in the sense that in order to study the ''others'' and try to understand them or their approaches to international law, one must take the ''others'' seriously.