International Law and Empire

Name: International Law and Empire
Brand: Oxford University Press(UK)
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By Martti Koskenniemi

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In times in which global governance in its various forms, such as human rights, international trade law, and development projects, is increasingly promoted by transnational economic actors and international institutions that seem to be detached from democratic processes of legitimation, thequestion of the relationship between international law and empire is as topical as ever. By examining this relationship in historical contexts from early modernity to the present, this volume aims to deepen current understandings of the way international legal institutions, practices, and narrativeshave shaped specifically imperial ideas about and structures of world governance. As it explores fundamental ways in which international legal discourses have operated in colonial as well as European contexts, the book enters a heated debate on the involvement of the modern law of nations in imperial projects. Each of the chapters contributes to this emerging body of scholarshipby drawing out the complexity and ambivalence of the relationship between international law and empire. They expand on the critique of western imperialism while acknowledging the nuances and ambiguities of international legal discourse and, in some cases, the possibility of counter-hegemonic claimsbeing articulated through the language of international law. Importantly, as the book suggests that international legal argument may sometimes be used to counter imperial enterprises, it maintains that international law can barely escape the Eurocentric framework within which the progressiveaspirations of internationalism were conceived

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 412
Release Date:: 2017-03-05
Publication Date:: 2017-03-01
Publisher:: Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0198795572
ISBN13:: 9780198795575
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Weight:: 781 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 27 cm

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