This article analyses the repercussions of restating foreign relations law for international law in the current constellation of backlash, or at least fatigue, with international law and global governance. Foreign relations law – consolidated, shaped and strengthened by the exercise of restating it – partly erects a bastion against international law and partly builds bridges between international law and domestic law. The foreign relations law of a powerful state such as the USA, in particular, risks marginalizing or even swallowing up international law. The article discusses four possible strategies to mitigate or counteract that ‘Behemoth’ tendency – namely, the normalization of foreign relations law, more intense restating exercises in international law proper, the elaboration of restatements of other countries’ foreign relations law and, finally, multi-perspectivism. The latter strategy involves seeing foreign relations law through the eyes of differently situated law appliers, notably by contemplating the consequences of the stated rules on other states and by comparing different nations’ foreign relations laws. The danger of US foreign relations law becoming the Behemoth of international law can be best contained by espousing such deliberate multi-perspectivism when designing, restating and interpreting it.

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美国法律研究所对法律的重述：堡垒、桥梁和巨兽

本文分析了在当前国际法和全球治理出现反弹或至少疲劳的情况下，重申外交关系法对国际法的影响。外交关系法——通过重申它而得到巩固、塑造和加强——部分地建立了反对国际法的堡垒，部分地在国际法和国内法之间架起了桥梁。尤其是像美国这样的大国的外交关系法，可能会边缘化甚至吞并国际法。本文讨论了减轻或抵消这种“巨兽”趋势的四种可能策略——即外交关系法正常化、国际法中更激烈的重述活动、制定其他国家外交关系法的重述以及，最后，多视角。后一种策略涉及通过不同位置的法律适用者的眼光看待外交关系法，特别是通过考虑所述规则对其他国家的影响以及比较不同国家的外交关系法。美国外交关系法成为国际法庞然大物的危险，最好通过在设计、重申和解释时支持这种深思熟虑的多视角主义来控制。