Passion and ambivalence [electronic resource] : colonialism, nationalism, and international law / by Nathaniel Berman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berman, Nathaniel.

Series:

Legal history library ; v. 6.

Legal history library. Studies in the history of international law ; v. 3.

Studies in the history of international law ; v. 3

Legal history library, 1874-1793 ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intervention (International law).

Intervention (International law)--History.

International law.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (474 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ethnic, nationalist, and religious conflicts and debates about international intervention have been central global preoccupations of the past hundred years. Such debates, this volume argues, were first framed in their modern form during the interwar period, when a “Modernist break” (akin to that in literature, philosophy, and the arts) transformed the way such conflicts were viewed. Internationalists began to cast identity-based claims — whether those of anti-colonialists or European separatists — not only as mortal dangers to international order but as indispensable to its revitalization. Drawing on cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and psychoanalysis — with case studies ranging from 1930's Ethiopia to 1990's Jerusalem — this volume looks at both the origins and legacy of these debates, offering a radical reinterpretation of modern internationalism.

Contents:

pt. 1. Empire and the international

pt. 2. Nationalist and legal passions : the modernist renewal of internationalism

pt. 3. Of law and fantasy

pt. 4. Ambivalence and power.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-39584-3

9786613395849

90-04-21025-3

OCLC:

769927272