The gentle civilizer of nations : the rise and fall of international law, 1870-1960 / Martti Koskenniemi.
"International law was born from the impulse to 'civilize' late nineteenth-century attitudes towards race and society, argues Martti Koskenniemi in this fascinating and highly readable study of the rise and fall of modern international law. In a work of immense intellectual scope, Kos...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Sample text Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "International law was born from the impulse to 'civilize' late nineteenth-century attitudes towards race and society, argues Martti Koskenniemi in this fascinating and highly readable study of the rise and fall of modern international law. In a work of immense intellectual scope, 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 Hersch Lauterpacht, Carl Schmitt and Hans Morgenthau); he also considers the role of crucial institutions (such as the Institut de droit international and the League of Nations). His discussion of legal and political realism at American law schools ends in a critique of post-1960 'instrumentalism'. Along with the book's other chapters, this provides a unique reflection on the possibility of critical international law today. Winner of the American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit 2002."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 569 pages) |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511040008 9780511040009 0511050569 9780511050565 0511155530 9780511155536 0511175272 9780511175275 051149422X 9780511494222 0521548098 9780521548090 1280418885 9781280418884 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511494222 |