Passion and Ambivalence

Colonialism, Nationalism, and International Law
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-21024-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6/3, 460 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 963 g

Reihe: Legal History Library / Studies in the History of International Law

Ethnic, nationalist, and religious conflicts and debates about international intervention have been central global preoccupations of the past hundred years. Such debates, this volume argues, were first framed in their modern form during the interwar period, when a “Modernist break” (akin to that in literature, philosophy, and the arts) transformed the way such conflicts were viewed. Internationalists began to cast identity-based claims — whether those of anti-colonialists or European separatists — not only as mortal dangers to international order but as indispensable to its revitalization. Drawing on cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and psychoanalysis — with case studies ranging from 1930s Ethiopia to 1990s Jerusalem — this volume looks at both the origins and legacy of these debates, offering a radical reinterpretation of modern internationalism.

Zielgruppe

Those interested in the histories of international law, nationalism, colonialism, cultural Modernism, and identity politics – as well as global policy responses to ethnic and religious conflict and struggles for self-determination.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berman, Nathaniel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jouannet, Emmanuelle

MacDonald, Euan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Critical Introduction
Emmanuelle Jouannet

Part I. Empire and the International

1. In the Wake of Empire
2. Intervention in a 'Divided World': Axes of Legitimacy

Part II. Passions, Legal and Nationalist: The Modernist Renewal of International

3. But the Alternative is Despair': European Nationalism and the Modernist Renewal of International Law
4. Between 'Alliance' and 'Localization': Nationalism and the New Oscillationism
5. The Nationality Decrees Case, or, of Intimacy and Consent
6. Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism? Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia, and 'Peaceful Change'

Part III. Of Law and Fantasy

7. Nationalism 'Good' and 'Bad': Vicissitudes of an Obsession
8. Legalizing Jerusalem, or, of Law, Fantasy, and Faith

Part IV. Ambivalence and Power

9. Imperial Ambivalences: Scenes from a Critical History of Internationalis"

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Berman, Nathaniel
Nathaniel Berman (B.A. Yale, J.D. Harvard Law) is the Rahel Varnhagen Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Modern Culture at the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University. He has published widely on international law, cultural modernism, nationalism, and colonialism.