Juan Pablo Scarfi

Hidden History of International Law in the Americas

Empire and Legal Networks

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers the first exploration of the deployment of international law for the legitimization of U.S. ascendancy as an informal empire in Latin America. This book explores the intellectual history of a distinctive idea of American international law in the Americas, focusing principally on the evolution of the American Institute of International Law (AIIL).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780190622343
• ISBN-10: 0190622342
• Artikelnr.: 47863318

Autorenporträt

Juan Pablo Scarfi is a Research Associate at the Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), and teaches international relations and international law at the School of Politics and Government at the National University of San Martín, Argentina. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2014. He was a Visiting Scholar at University College London (Institute of the Americas) and Columbia University, as well as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Intellectual History in the National University of Quilmes. He is the author of El imperio de la ley: James Brown Scott y la construcción de un orden jurídico interamericano (2014) and co-editor of Cooperation and Hegemony in US-Latin American Relations: Revisiting the Western Hemisphere Idea (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: Hemispheric Legal Networks and Languages in the
Americas
* Abbreviations
* Chapter 1: Towards a Pan-American Legal Order: The Rise of US
Hemispheric Hegemony and Elihu Root's Visit to South America
* Chapter 2: Forging and Consolidating a Hemispheric Legal Network: The
Creation of the American Institute of International Law and the
Encounter between Scott and Alvarez
* Chapter 3: The Pan-American Redefinition of the Monroe Doctrine and
the Emerging Language of American International Law
* Chapter 4: International Organisation and Hegemony: The Codification
of American International Law and the Tensions between Scott and
Alvarez
* Chapter 5: The Debate over Intervention at Havana and the Crisis of
the American Institute of International Law: Scott¿s Displacement of
Alvarez
* Chapter 6: From Pan-Americanism to Multilateral Inter-Americanism:
The Impact of the Anti-War Treaty, the Principle of Non-intervention
and Sovereign Equality at Montevideo and the Dissolution of the
American Institute of International Law
* Conclusion: From US Hemispheric to Global Hegemony: Assessing the
Legacy of American International Law and the American Institute of
International Law in the Americas
* Appendix A: Constitution of the American Institute of International
Law (1913)
* Appendix B: American Institute of International Law, "Declaration of
Rights and Duties of Nations" (1915)
* Appendix C: Platt Amendment (1901)
* Bibliography
* Index