Great powers and outlaw states : unequal sovereigns in the international legal order / Gerry Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simpson, Gerry J., author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) ; 32.

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality of states.

Great powers.

State-sponsored terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 391 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Great Powers & Outlaw States

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The presence of Great Powers and outlaw states is a central but under-explored feature of international society. In this book, Gerry Simpson describes the ways in which an international legal order based on 'sovereign equality' has accommodated the Great Powers and regulated outlaw states since the beginning of the nineteenth-century. In doing so, the author offers a fresh understanding of sovereignty which he terms juridical sovereignty to show how international law has managed the interplay of three languages: the languages of Great Power prerogative, the language of outlawry (or anti-pluralism) and the language of sovereign equality. The co-existence and interaction of these three languages is traced through a number of moments of institutional transformation in the global order from the Congress of Vienna to the 'war on terrorism'.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Great Powers and outlaw states; 2 Sovereign equalities; 3 Legalised hierarchies; 4 Legalised hegemony: from Congress to Conference 1815-1906; 5 'Extreme equality': Rupture at the Second Hague Peace Conference 1907; 6 The Great Powers, sovereign equality and the making of the United Nations Charter: San Francisco 1945; 7 Holy Alliances: Verona 1822 and Kosovo 1999; 8 Unequal sovereigns: 1815-1939; 9 Peace-loving nations: 1945; 10 Outlaw states: 1999; 11 Arguing about Afghanistan: Great Powers and outlaw states redux; 12 The puzzle of sovereignty; Select bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 354-371) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14729-8

1-280-54049-4

0-511-21526-6

0-511-21705-6

0-511-21168-6

0-511-32730-7

0-511-49418-1

0-511-21345-X

OCLC:

171139112