Histories of international law: dealing with eurocentrism
- In The Gentle Civilizer of Nations, I suggested that international law began in the 1860’s as part of liberal entrenchment in Europe as the clouds of nationalism, racism and socialism were rising in the political horizon. It began as a project of practicalmen, attorneys and lawyers active in politics and parliament, and not out of philosophical contemplation or system-construction. University professors were involved, but these were professors of something that was seen more as a craft than a science. What they aimed at was to "civilize" the behaviour of their nations, but also the colonies, and to do this by coordinating liberal legislative reform in Europe, by supporting formal empire in the colonies, and by doing all this as part of a set of cosmopolitan legal projects they grouped into their "international law" (Droit international, diritto internazionale, Völkerrecht). ...
| Author: | Martti Koskenniemi |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-545591 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.12946/rg19/152-176 |
| ISSN: | 1619-4993 |
| ISSN: | 2195-9617 |
| Parent Title (Multiple languages): | Rechtsgeschichte = Legal history |
| Publisher: | Klostermann |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt, M. |
| Contributor(s): | Thomas Duve |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2011 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2011 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2020/04/08 |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Page Number: | 26 |
| First Page: | 152 |
| Last Page: | 176 |
| Note: | Dieser Beitrag steht unter einer Creative Commons cc-by-nc-nd 3.0 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 464134234 |
| Institutes: | Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
| 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 |
