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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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
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2002.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. "The legal conscience of the civilized world"
- 2. Sovereignty: a gift of civilization: international lawyers and imperialism 1870-1914
- 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.".