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.
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