The gentle civilizer of nations the rise and fall of international law 1870-1960
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The Gentle Civilizer of Nations
The Rise and Fall of International
Law 1870–1960
Modern international law was born from the impulse to “civilize”
late nineteenth-century attitudes towards race and society, argues
Martti Koskenniemi in this highly readable study of the rise and fall
of classical international law. In a work of wide-ranging intellectual
scope, Koskenniemi traces the emergence of a liberal sensibility
relating to international matters in the late
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TheGentleCivilizerofNations
TheRiseandFallofInternationalLaw1870–1960
Moderninternationallawwasbornfromtheimpulseto“civilize”latenineteenth-centuryattitudestowardsraceandsociety,arguesMarttiKoskenniemiinthishighlyreadablestudyoftheriseandfallofclassicalinternationallaw.Inaworkofwide-rangingintellectualscope,Koskenniemitracestheemergenceofaliberalsensibilityrelatingtointernationalmattersinthelatenineteenthcentury,anditssubsequentdeclineaftertheSecondWorldWar.Hecombineslegalanalysis,historicalandpoliticalcritiqueandsemi-biographicalstudiesofkey
fi
gures(includingHansKelsen,HerschLauterpacht,CarlSchmitt,andHansMorgenthau);healsoconsiderstheroleof crucialinstitutions(suchasthe
Institutdedroitinternational
andtheLeagueofNations).Hisdiscussionoflegalandpoliticalrealismat Americanlawschoolsendsinacritiqueofpost-1960“instrumen-talism.”Alongwiththebook’sotherchapters,thisprovidesauniquere
fl
ectiononthepossibilityofcriticalinternationallawtoday.
isProfessorofInternationalLawattheUniversityofHelsinkiandmemberoftheGlobalLawSchoolFacultyatNewYorkUniversity.HewasamemberoftheFinnishMinistryforForeignA
ff
airsfrom1978to1995,serving,among otherassignments,asheadoftheInternationalLawDivision.HehasalsoservedasFinland’srepresentativeatanumberofinterna-tionalbodiesandmeetings,includingnumeroussessionsoftheUNGeneralAssembly;hewaslegaladvisertotheFinnishdelegationattheUNSecurityCouncilin1989–1990.Hismainpublicationsare
FromApologytoUtopia.TheStructureofInternationalLegalArgument
(1989),
InternationalLawAspectsoftheEuropeanUnion
(edited,1997)and
StateSuccession:Codi
fi
cationTestedAgainsttheFacts
(co-edited,withPierreMichelEisemann,1999).
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