International Status in the Shadow of Empire : Nauru and the Histories of International Law / Cait Storr.

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Book

Author/Creator:

Storr, Cait, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 150.

Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law ; 150

Language:

English

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

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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Summary:

Nauru is often figured as an anomaly in the international order. This book offers a new account of Nauru's imperial history and examines its significance to the histories of international law. Drawing on theories of jurisdiction and bureaucracy, it reconstructs four shifts in Nauru's status - from German protectorate, to League of Nations C Mandate, to UN Trust Territory, to sovereign state - as a means of redescribing the transition from the nineteenth century imperial order to the twentieth century state system. The book argues that as international status shifts, imperial form accretes: as Nauru's status shifted, what occurred at the local level was a gradual process of bureaucratisation. Two conclusions emerge from this argument. The first is that imperial administration in Nauru produced the Republic's post-independence 'failures'. The second is that international recognition of sovereign status is best understood as marking a beginning, not an end, of the process of decolonisation.

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ISBN:

9781108682602

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