The gentle civilizer of nations : the rise and fall of international law, 1870-1960
Legal analysis, historical and political critique of the rise and fall of modern international law.
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Format: | E-Book |
Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2001
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Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Hersch Lauterpacht memorial lectures
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Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Hersch Lauterpacht memorial lectures |
Schlagworte: | International law International law ; History Electronic books |
Umfang: | 1 online resource (585 pages) |
Zusammenfassung: | Legal analysis, historical and political critique of the rise and fall of modern international law. Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- 1 "The legal conscience of the civilized world " -- A manifesto -- An old-fashioned tradition -- A transitional critic: Kaltenborn von Stachau -- An amateur science -- A time of danger -- A meeting in Ghent, 1873 -- A romantic profession: Bluntschli -- A social conception of law -- Method: enlightened inwardness -- Towards a culture of human rights: Fiore -- Advancing the liberal project -- Limits of liberalism -- Cultural consciousness -- Culture as character -- The elusive sensibility -- 2 Sovereignty: a gift of civilization - international lawyers and imperialism, 1870-1914 -- Ambivalent attitudes -- Informal empire 1815-1870: hic sunt leones -- The lawyers 1815-1870 -- The demise of informal empire in Africa -- The Berlin Conference 1884-1885 -- The myth of civilization: a logic of exclusion-inclusion -- Looking for a standard -- Between universality and relativism: colonial treaties -- The myth of sovereignty: a beneficent empire -- The limits of sovereignty: civilization betrayed -- Occupation is nothing - Fashoda -- Sovereignty as terror - the Congo -- From sovereignty to internationalization -- 3 International law as philosophy: Germany 1871-1933 -- 1871: law as the science of the legal form -- From form to substance: the doctrine of the rational will -- Between the dangerous and the illusory State -- Rechtsstaat - domestic and international: Georg Jellinek -- Rationalism and politics: a dificulty -- Drawing lines in the profession -- Public law and the Hague Treaties -- A pacifist profession? Kohler, Schücking, and the First World War -- The internationalists: between sociology and formalism -- 1914 -- Getting organized -- Beyond Versailles: the end of German internationalism. |
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Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (585 pages) |
ISBN: | 9780511155536 0511155530 9780521623117 0521623111 |