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International law and empire : historical explorations / edited by Martti Koskenniemi, Walter Rech, Manuel Jiménez Fonseca.

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By examining the relationship between international law and empire from early modernity to the present, this volume improves current understandings of the way international legal institutions, practices, and narratives have shaped imperial ideas about and structures of world governance.

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Other Authors: Koskenniemi, Martti (Editor), Rech, Walter (Editor), Jiménez Fonseca, Manuel (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:History and theory of international law.
Subjects:
International law > History.
Imperialism > History.
Imperialism.
International law.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Epistemologies of Empire and International Law
  • 1. Provincializing Grotius: International Law and Empire in a Seventeenth-Century Malay Mirror / Arthur Weststeijn
  • 2. Indirect Hegemonies in International Legal Relations: The Debate of Religious Tolerance in Early Republican China / Stefan Kroll
  • 3. International Law, Empire, and the Relative Indeterminacy of Narrative / Walter Rech
  • Part II: Legal Discourses of Empire
  • 4. The Concepts of Universal Monarchy and Balance of Power in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century-a Case Study / Peter Schroder
  • 5. Between Faith and Empire: The Justification of the Spanish Intervention in the French Wars of Religion in the 1590s / Randall Lesaffer
  • 6. Jus gentium and the Transformation of Latin American Nature: One More Reading of Vitoria? / Manuel Jimenez Fonseca
  • 7. Cerberus: The State, the Empire, and the Company as Subjects of International Law in Grotius and the Peace of Westphalia / Jose-Manuel Barreto
  • 8. Revolution, Empire, and Utopia: Tocqueville and the Intellectual Background of International Law / Julie Saada
  • Part III: Managing Empire: Imperial Administration and Diplomacy
  • 9. Towards the Empire of a 'Civilizing Nation': The French Revolution and its Impact on Relations with the Ottoman Regencies in the Maghreb / Christian Windler
  • 10. A Comporting Sovereign, Tribes, and the Ordering of Imperial Authority in Colonial Upper Canada of the 1830s / PG McHugh
  • 11. Territory, Sovereignty, and the Construction of the Colonial Space / Luigi Nuzzo
  • Part IV: A Legal Critique of Empire?
  • 12. An Anti-Imperialist Universalism? Jus Cogens and the Politics of International Law / Umut Ozsu
  • 13. Drift towards an Empire? The Trajectory of American Reformers in the Cold War / Hatsue Shinohara
  • 14. Imperium sine fine: Carneades, the Splendid Vice of Glory, and the Justice of Empire / Benjamin Straumann
  • 15. Scepticism of the Civilizing Mission in International Law / Andrew Fitzmaurice.

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