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The Sentimental Life of International Law is about our age-old
longing for a decent international society and the ways of seeing,
being, and speaking that might help us achieve that aim. This book
asks how international lawyers might engage in a professional
practice that has become, to adapt a title of Janet Malcolm's, both
difficult and impossible. It suggests that international lawyers
are disabled by the governing idioms of international lawyering,
and proposes that they may be re-enabled by speaking different
sorts of international law, or by speaking international law in
different sorts of ways. In this methodologically diverse and
unusually personal account, Gerry Simpson brings to the surface
international law's hidden literary prose and offers a critical and
redemptive account of the field. He does so in a series of chapters
on international law's bathetic underpinnings, its friendly
relations, the neurotic foundations of its underlying social order,
its screened-off comic dispositions, its anti-method, and the
life-worlds of its practitioners. Finally, the book closes with a
chapter in which international law is re-envisioned through the
practice of gardening. All of this is put forward as a contribution
to the project of making international law, again, a compelling
language for our times.
This title was first published in 2002: The purpose if this volume
is to provide a map of some of the great theoretical debates within
the discipline of international law. The essays included are
structured as dialogues between international legal theorists on
concrete subjects such as democracy, gender, compliance,
sovereignty and justice. They represent the most interesting
theoretical work undertaken in international law.
This title was first published in 2002: The purpose if this volume
is to provide a map of some of the great theoretical debates within
the discipline of international law. The essays included are
structured as dialogues between international legal theorists on
concrete subjects such as democracy, gender, compliance,
sovereignty and justice. They represent the most interesting
theoretical work undertaken in international law.
International Law and the Cold War is the first book dedicated to
examining the relationship between the Cold War and International
Law. The authors adopt a variety of creative approaches - in
relation to events and fields such as nuclear war, environmental
protection, the Suez crisis and the Lumumba assassination - in
order to demonstrate the many ways in which international law acted
upon the Cold War and in turn show how contemporary international
law is an inheritance of the Cold War. Their innovative research
traces the connections between the Cold War and contemporary legal
constructions of the nation-state, the environment, the third
world, and the refugee; and between law, technology, science,
history, literature, art, and politics.
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'.
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'.
GOSISMS Word of Wisdom, Confidence and Motivation is a collection
of daily affirmations created to motivate and inspire.
International Law and the Cold War is the first book dedicated to
examining the relationship between the Cold War and International
Law. The authors adopt a variety of creative approaches - in
relation to events and fields such as nuclear war, environmental
protection, the Suez crisis and the Lumumba assassination - in
order to demonstrate the many ways in which international law acted
upon the Cold War and in turn show how contemporary international
law is an inheritance of the Cold War. Their innovative research
traces the connections between the Cold War and contemporary legal
constructions of the nation-state, the environment, the third
world, and the refugee; and between law, technology, science,
history, literature, art, and politics.
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