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The Politics of Justifying Force - The Suez Crisis, the Iraq War, and International Law (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Justifying Force - The Suez Crisis, the Iraq War, and International Law (Hardcover)
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What are the politics involved in a government justifying its use
of military force abroad? What is the role of international law in
that discourse? How and why is international law crucial to this
process? And what role does the media have in mediating the
interaction of international law and politics? This book provides a
fresh and engaging answer to these questions. It introduces
different actors to the study of international law in this context,
in particular highlighting the importance of institutional actors
and the role of the media. It takes a theoretical approach,
informed by detailed empirical analysis of key case studies, which
challenges the traditional distinction between the spheres of 'the
international' and 'the domestic' in global affairs, and the role
of international law in the making of public policy. The book
specifically critiques the idea of the 'politics of justification',
which argues that deploying international legal norms to justify
governmental decisions resulting in the use of force necessarily
constrains government actions, and leads to fewer instances of
military intervention. The politics of justification, on this
account, can be seen as a progressive practice, through which
international law can become embedded in domestic societies. The
book investigates the actors engaged in this justification, and the
institutional contexts within which legal justification is
articulated, interpreted, and contested. It provides a rich,
detailed account of domestic British discourse in the crucial case
studies of the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the Iraq War of 2003, making
extensive use of archival material, newspaper and television
reporting, Parliamentary debates, polling data, personal memoirs,
and the declassified material provided to several Public Inquiries,
including the Chilcot Inquiry. In light of these sources, it
considers the concept of international law as a language and form
of communication rather than a set of abstract norms. It argues
that a detailed understanding of how that language is deployed,
both in private and in public, is essential to gaining a deeper
understanding of the role of international law in domestic
politics. This book will be illuminating reading for scholars and
students the use of force in international law, historians, and
media theorists.
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