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THE GENTLE CIVILIZER OF NATIONS
THE RISE AND FALL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 1870-1960 |
| By: |
Martti Koskenniemi |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£167.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521623111 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521623117 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
29 November, 2001 |
| Series: |
Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures No.14 |
| Pages: |
584 |
| Description: |
Legal analysis, historical and political critique of the rise and fall of modern international law. |
| 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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UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit 2002 |
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