The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870–1960 - Couverture souple

Koskenniemi, Martti

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521548098 ISBN 13 : 9780521548090

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

University of Helsinki.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521548098
• ISBN 13: 9780521548090
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 584
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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