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Author: Antony Anghie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-04-26
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780521702720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the relationship between imperialism and international law.
Author: Cait Storr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-17
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1108498507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a new account of Nauru's imperial history and examines its significance in the history of international law.
Author: Sundhya Pahuja
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-09-29
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1139502069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe universal promise of contemporary international law has long inspired countries of the Global South to use it as an important field of contestation over global inequality. Taking three central examples, Sundhya Pahuja argues that this promise has been subsumed within a universal claim for a particular way of life by the idea of 'development'. As the horizon of the promised transformation and concomitant equality has receded ever further, international law has legitimised an ever-increasing sphere of intervention in the Third World. The post-war wave of decolonisation ended in the creation of the developmental nation-state, the claim to permanent sovereignty over natural resources in the 1950s and 1960s was transformed into the protection of foreign investors, and the promotion of the rule of international law in the early 1990s has brought about the rise of the rule of law as a development strategy in the present day.
Author: John Reynolds
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-08-10
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1107172519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyses the states of emergency exposing the intersections between colonial law, international law, imperialism and racial discrimination.
Author: Turan Kayaoğlu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-04-19
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0521765919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLegal Imperialism examines the important role of nineteenth-century Western extraterritorial courts in non-Western states. These courts, created as a separate legal system for Western expatriates living in Asian and Islamic coutries, developed from the British imperial model, which was founded on ideals of legal positivism. Based on a cross-cultural comparison of the emergence, function, and abolition of these court systems in Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and China, Turan Kayaoglu elaborates a theory of extraterritoriality, comparing the nineteenth-century British example with the post-World War II American legal imperialism. He also provides an explanation for the end of imperial extraterritoriality, arguing that the Western decision to abolish their separate legal systems stemmed from changes in non-Western territories, including Meiji legal reforms, Republican Turkey's legal transformation under Ataturk, and the Guomindang's legal reorganization in China. Ultimately, his research provides an innovative basis for understanding the assertion of legal authority by Western powers on foreign soil and the influence of such assertion on ideas about sovereignty.
Author: Nikolas Stürchler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-07-19
Total Pages: 23
ISBN-13: 1139464914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThreats of force are a common feature of international politics, advocated by some as an economical guarantee against the outbreak of war and condemned by others as a recipe for war. Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter forbids states to use threats of force, yet the meaning of the prohibition is unclear. This book provides the first comprehensive appraisal of the no-threat principle: its origin, underlying rationale, theoretical implications, relevant jurisprudence, and how it has withstood the test of time from 1945 to the present. Based on a systematic evaluation of state and United Nations practices, the book identifies what constitutes a threat of force and when its use is justified under the United Nations Charter. In so doing, it relates the no-threat principle to important concepts of the twentieth century, such as deterrence, escalation, crisis management, and what has been aptly described as the 'diplomacy of violence'.
Author: Ntina Tzouvala
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-29
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1108497187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing the theoretical tools drawn from historical materialism and deconstruction, Tzouvala offers a comprehensive history of the standard of civilisation.
Author: Anne Orford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-08-05
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1108480942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law's history and its relation to empire and capitalism.
Author: Arnulf Becker Lorca
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1316194051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe development of international law is conventionally understood as a history in which the main characters (states and international lawyers) and events (wars and peace conferences) are European. Arnulf Becker Lorca demonstrates how non-Western states and lawyers appropriated nineteenth-century classical thinking in order to defend new and better rules governing non-Western states' international relations. By internalizing the standard of civilization, for example, they argued for the abrogation of unequal treaties. These appropriations contributed to the globalization of international law. With the rise of modern legal thinking and a stronger international community governed by law, peripheral lawyers seized the opportunity and used the new discourse and institutions such as the League of Nations to dissolve the standard of civilization and codify non-intervention and self-determination. These stories suggest that the history of our contemporary international legal order is not purely European; instead they suggest a history of a mestizo international law.
Author: Daphne Barak-Erez
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2007-06-05
Total Pages: 208
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