Abstract
This book has had two main goals. First, it has aimed at revisiting the concept of global prohibition regime and at discussing various aspects of this concept which have so far largely escaped scholarly attention.
Second, it has endeavoured to explore the relationship between global prohibition regimes and international law, considering what legal choices States or other actors construing global prohibition regimes have to make and assessing whether and how the legal parameters of a regime impact on its creation, operation and outcomes. These issues have been so far paid only limited attention in scholarly literature and, thus, yet another ambition of the book has been to demonstrate that they would indeed deserve such attention, not only because they are of both theoretical interest and practical relevance, but also because they allow to bring together approaches of two disciplines that, albeit closely related and often dealing with the same subjects, have for a long time had only limited contacts -international legal doctrine and international relations theory.