Mestizo International Law
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Mestizo International Law

A Global Intellectual History 1842–1933

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Mestizo International Law

A Global Intellectual History 1842–1933

About this book

The development of international law is conventionally understood as a history in which the main characters (states and international lawyers) and events (wars and peace conferences) are European. Arnulf Becker Lorca demonstrates how non-Western states and lawyers appropriated nineteenth-century classical thinking in order to defend new and better rules governing non-Western states' international relations. By internalizing the standard of civilization, for example, they argued for the abrogation of unequal treaties. These appropriations contributed to the globalization of international law. With the rise of modern legal thinking and a stronger international community governed by law, peripheral lawyers seized the opportunity and used the new discourse and institutions such as the League of Nations to dissolve the standard of civilization and codify non-intervention and self-determination. These stories suggest that the history of our contemporary international legal order is not purely European; instead they suggest a history of a mestizo international law.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9780521763387
eBook ISBN
9781316190388
Topic
Law
Subtopic
International Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of maps
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction
  11. Part I: Mestizo international law
  12. Part II: Universal international law
  13. Part III: The fall of classical thought and the turn to modern international law
  14. Part IV: Modern international law
  15. Conclusion
  16. Appendices
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index