Great Powers and Outlaw States - Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order (Hardcover)

The presence of Great Powers and outlaw states is a central but under-explored feature of international society. In this book, Gerry Simpson describes the ways in which an international legal order based on 'sovereign equality' has accommodated the Great Powers and regulated outlaw states since the beginning of the nineteenth-century. In doing so, the author offers a fresh understanding of sovereignty which he terms juridical sovereignty to show how international law has managed the interplay of three languages: the languages of Great Power prerogative, the language of outlawry (or anti-pluralism) and the language of sovereign equality. The co-existence and interaction of these three languages is traced through a number of moments of institutional transformation in the global order from the Congress of Vienna to the 'war on terrorism'.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Release date:	April 2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	Gerry Simpson
Dimensions:	236 x 161 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	416
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-82761-4
Categories:	Books > Law > International law > General
LSN:	0-521-82761-2
Barcode:	9780521827614

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