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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koskenniemi, Martti, editor.

Rech, Walter, editor.

Jiménez Fonseca, Manuel, editor.

Series:

History and theory of international law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International law--History.

International law.

History.

Imperialism--History.

Imperialism.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 395 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In the past few decades the understanding of the relationship between nations has undergone a radical transformation. The role of the traditional nation-state is diminishing, along with many of the traditional vocabularies which were once used to describe what has been called, ever since Jeremy Bentham coined the phrase in 1780, 'international law'. The older boundaries between states are growing ever more fluid, new conceptions and new language have emerged which are slowly coming to replace the image of a world of sovereign independent nation states which has dominated the study of international relations since the early nineteenth century. This redefinition of the international arena demands a new understanding of classical and contemporary questions in international and legal theory. It is the editors' conviction that the best way to achieve this is by bridging the traditional divide between international legal theory, intellectual history, and legal and political history. The aim of the series, therefore is to provide a forum for historical studies, from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century, that are theoretically-informed and for philosophical work that is historically conscious in the hope that a new vision of the rapidly evolving international world, its past its possible future, may emerge. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780198795575

0198795572

OCLC:

972288611