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The gentle civilizer of nations : the rise and fall of international law, 1870-1960 / Martti Koskenniemi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002Description: xiv, 569 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521623111
  • 9780521623117
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.09 21
LOC classification:
  • KZ1242 .K67 2002
Online resources:
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"
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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 518-558) and index.

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"

"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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