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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koskenniemi, Martti, author.

Series:

Hersch Lauterpacht memorial lectures ; 14.

Hersch Lauterpacht memorial lectures ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International law--History.

International law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 569 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

International law was born from the impulse to 'civilize' late nineteenth-century attitudes towards race and society, argues Martti Koskenniemi in this extensive study of the rise and fall of modern international law. In a work of wide-ranging intellectual scope, now available for the first time in paperback, 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 Hans Kelsen, Hersch Lauterpacht, Carl Schmitt and Hans Morgenthau); he also considers the role of crucial institutions (the Institut de droit international, the League of Nations). His discussion of legal and political realism at American law schools ends in a critique of post-1960 'instrumentalism'. This book provides a unique reflection on the possibility of critical international law today.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The legal conscience of the civilized world Ž; 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 solidarismŽ 1871...1950; 5 Lauterpacht: the Victorian tradition in international law; 6 Out of Europe: Carl Schmitt, Hans Morgenthau, and the turn to international relationsŽ; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references (p. 518-558) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11498-5

1-280-41888-5

0-511-17527-2

0-511-04000-8

0-511-15553-0

0-511-32530-4

0-511-49422-X

0-511-05056-9

OCLC:

437063303