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

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Koskenniemi, Martti
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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1 online resource (xiv, 569 pages)
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English.
Contents
"The legal conscience of the civilized world" -- Sovereignty: a gift of civilization--international lawyers and imperialism, 1870-1914 -- International law as philosophy: Germany 1871-1933 -- International law as sociology: French "solidarism" 1871-1950 -- Lauterpacht: the Victorian tradition in international law -- Out of Europe: Carl Schmitt, Hans Morgenthau, and the turn to "international relations."
Summary
Koskenniemi combines legal analysis, historical and political critique and semi-biographical studies to trace the emergence of a liberal sensibility relating to international matters in the late nineteenth century, and its subsequent decline post Second World War. This highly readable and learned study ends with a critique of post-1960 'instrumentalism'.
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0511040008 (electronic bk.)
9780511040009 (electronic bk.)
0511155530
9780511155536
0511175272 (electronic bk.)
9780511175275 (electronic bk.)
9780511050565 (electronic bk.)
0511050569 (electronic bk.)
9780521623117 (hbk.)
0521623111 (hbk.)
0511325304
9780511325304
1280418885
9781280418884
9780511494222
051149422X
0521548098
9780521548090
1107114985
9781107114982
9780521548090 (paperback)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 518-558) and index.
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