Resumen de Antonio Cassese: head in the clouds, feet on the ground

Joseph H. H. Weiler

• Realism and Utopianism are systemic opposites. They often live together, maybe even inherently, as part of the same system. But as opposites. One can easily argue that international law is a prime example of that co-existence of opposites, in the inbuilt double teloi of Order and Justice; it is not an unassailable case? for why should we imagine that order and justice are opposites? Would not a world of perfect justice be a world of perfect order? It will, say the Prophets, but even they cast such in messianic terms, as a Kingdom to Come, which in secular terms we would call a Utopia. And so we are back to the proposition of an inbuilt system of �