The Gentle Civilizer of Nations - The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960 (Paperback, New Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures
Release date:	August 2004
First published:	2001
Authors:	Martti Koskenniemi
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	584
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-54809-0
Categories:	Books > Law > International law > General Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Foundations of law > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-54809-8
Barcode:	9780521548090

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