Rival Legalities

International Laws of the Cold War
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-108-84126-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Gewicht: 500 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law

This book offers a wholly new way of thinking about the ideas, struggles and practices that constituted the “historical” Cold War.  It challenges dominant myths about the history of the Cold War, arguing that far from being consumed by their ideological rivalry, the US and the Soviet Union were engaged in a conjoint project of world ordering. This idea of a unified Amero-Soviet project brings into view the many ways in which the Cold War was continuous with the imperialisms it displaced. Against this unity though,  a rich plurality of law and legal forms emerged, and practices of South-South and South-North solidarity were forged which have since been obscured. The book makes visible the patterns drawn by the aftermath of this 'Cold War' legal order and seeks to both recuperate the imaginative resources that were made available at the time, and provide a corrective to contemporary prognostications that the 'rule-based order' may be nearing its end.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craven, Matthew

Pahuja, Sundhya

Simpson, Gerry

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. A (Dis)United nations, a hesitant inauguration; 3. The Amero-soviet cold war; 4. Practices of diplomacy or international law and being neutral; 5. International legal experimentalism: anti-anti colonialism and third world legalities; 6. Disrupting the cold war: revolutionary internationalism in the global south; 7. Secrets and spies: espionage, surveillance and the covert cold war; 8. Nuclearism: globalising the cold war; 9. Fallout: redescription, periodisation and aftermath; Acknowledgements; A note on the cover image; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Craven, Matthew
Matthew Craven is Professor of International Law at SOAS University of London. He is author of The Decolonisation of International Law (2007) which won the inaugural European Society of International Law prize in the same year, and has authored or edited a number of other books including International Law and the Cold War (2019). He is currently working on a project on international law and geopolitics exploring the interconnections between the two traditions of thought and practice.

Simpson, Gerry
Gerry Simpson is Professor of Public International Law at The London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Great Powers and Outlaw States (2004), Law, War and Crime: War Crimes Trials and the Reinvention of International Law (2008) and The Sentimental Life of International Law: Literature, Language and Longing in Global Politics (2021). Gerry is currently writing a book on nuclearism entitled: The Atomics: My Nuclear Family at the End of the Earth.

Pahuja, Sundhya
Sundhya Pahuja is Melbourne Laureate Professor, ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow, Director of the Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law. She is known for her work on the encounter between plural forms of international law and the legal, historical, political and economic dimensions of the relations between Global South and North, and the winner of the Max Planck-Cambridge Prize for International Law. Sundhya is the author of Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality (Cambridge 2011) and the co-editor of several other books including International Law and the Cold War (2019).