The gentle civilizer of nations : the rise and fall of international law, 1870-1960 /

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Koskenniemi combines legal analysis, historical and political critique and semi-biographical studies to trace the emergence of a liberal sensibility relating to international matters in the late nineteenth century, and its subsequent decline post Second World War. This highly readable and learned st...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Koskenniemi, Martti
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Hersch Lauterpacht memorial lectures.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1870-1960.
International law > History.
Droit international > Histoire.
LAW > International.
International law
Völkerrecht
Internationales Recht
Internationaal recht.
Direito internacional (história)
Jura > Jura.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "The legal conscience of the civilized world"
  • Sovereignty: a gift of civilization--international lawyers and imperialism, 1870-1914
  • International law as philosophy: Germany 1871-1933
  • International law as sociology: French "solidarism" 1871-1950
  • Lauterpacht: the Victorian tradition in international law
  • Out of Europe: Carl Schmitt, Hans Morgenthau, and the turn to "international relations."

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