The limits and the appeal of the restatement method, in general, and of the Restatement of the Law (Fourth): The Foreign Relations Law of the United States, in particular – understood as the reasons why, or not, other countries (or legal communities) would be incited to follow the same path and have the same kind of instrument regarding their own system – are in fact intertwined. Any alleged appealing aspect can give way to questions about the limits of the exercise and the other way around. The analysis will therefore proceed with questions more than with answers, in seven steps intended to increasingly show the ambivalence of the Restatement (Fourth), beginning with its scope, before considering its authors, its addressees and, therefore, the Restatement’s reach, its nature, its topic or subject matter, its context and, finally, its underlying ideology.

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重述的限制和上诉

重述方法的局限性和吸引力，一般，以及法律重述（第四）：特别是美国的对外关系法——被理解为其他国家（或法律）的原因社区）将被鼓励走同样的道路，并在他们自己的系统上拥有同样的工具——实际上是相互交织的。任何所谓的吸引人的方面都可能让位于有关练习限制的问题，反之亦然。因此，分析将继续提出问题而不是回答，分七个步骤，旨在越来越多地显示重述（第四）的矛盾性，从范围开始，然后考虑其作者、收件人，因此，重述的范围和性质，它的主题或主题，它的背景，最后，