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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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Book category Books in English Law Jurisprudence & general issues Systems of law

• Full title: Gentle Civilizer of Nations
• Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960
• Author: Martti Koskenniemi
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 584
• EAN: 9780521623117
• ISBN: 0521623111
• ID: 02037871
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 1038 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 153 × 41 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. November 2001

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