Martti Koskenniemi

Gentle Civilizer of Nations (eBook, PDF)

The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960

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Produktbeschreibung

International law was born from the impulse to 'civilize' late nineteenth-century attitudes towards race and society, argues Martti Koskenniemi in this extensive study of the rise and fall of modern international law. In a work of wide-ranging intellectual scope, now available for the first time in paperback, Koskenniemi traces the emergence of a liberal sensibility relating to international matters in the late nineteenth century, and its subsequent decline after the Second World War. He combines legal analysis, historical and political critique and semi-biographical studies of key figures (including Hans Kelsen, Hersch Lauterpacht, Carl Schmitt and Hans Morgenthau); he also considers the role of crucial institutions (the Institut de droit international, the League of Nations). His discussion of legal and political realism at American law schools ends in a critique of post-1960 'instrumentalism'. This book provides a unique reflection on the possibility of critical international law today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511035326
• Artikelnr.: 56701812

Autorenporträt

University of Helsinki.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 'The legal conscience of the civilized world'
2. Sovereignty: a gift of civilization
3. International law as philosophy: Germany 1871-1933
4. International law as sociology: French 'solidarism' 1871-1950
5. Lauterpacht: the Victorian tradition in international law
6. Out of Europe: Carl Schmitt, Hans Morgenthau and the turn to 'international relations'
Epilogue.