What International Law Should (Not) Become. A Comment on Koskenniemi.

This comment argues that Koskenniemi's postmodern irony with regard to concepts such as human rights and jus cogens, which views these concepts either as 'kitsch' or as mere 'instruments in hegemonic struggle', is not plausible, because there is, contrary to Koskenniemi's postmodern-ironist assertions, no neutral platform permitting us to stand outside (and to look through) concepts such as human rights, democracy, jus cogens, and so on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]