The Gentle Civilizer of Nations

The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870–1960

By:

Martti Koskenniemi

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures

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International law was born from the impulse to 'civilize' late nineteenth-century attitudes towards race and society, argues Martti Koskenniemi in this extensive study of the rise and fall of modern international law. In a work of wide-ranging intellectual scope, now available for the first time in paperback, Koskenniemi traces the emergence of a liberal sensibility relating to international matters in the late nineteenth century, and its subsequent decline after the Second World War. He combines legal analysis, historical and political critique and semi-biographical studies of key figures (including Hans Kelsen, Hersch Lauterpacht, Carl Schmitt and Hans Morgenthau); he also considers the role of crucial institutions (the Institut de droit international, the League of Nations). His discussion of legal and political realism at American law schools ends in a critique of post-1960 'instrumentalism'. This book provides a unique reflection on the possibility of critical international law today.

Author Biography:

University of Helsinki.

Release date Australia

August 19th, 2004

Author

Martti Koskenniemi

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

584

Series

Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures

Dimensions

152x229x35

ISBN-13

9780521548090

Product ID

2011452

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