International Law and the Cold War

Abstract

This project is about international law and the Cold War. It seeks to re-read international law and the Cold War as mutually constitutive in a ground-breaking reconceptualisation of contemporary international law as a product of the Cold War, and the Cold War as a juridical category. It will produce the first history and theory of the relationship between international law and the Cold War. This new history will contribute to wider debates about the future of the international legal and diplomatic order. This is particularly relevant now, when emerging global divisions threaten to repeat the ideological enmity and paranoia that was a feature of the Cold War period.

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International Law and the Cold War

Matthew Craven, Sundhya Pahuja, Gerry Simpson

2020-01-01

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Matthew Craven, Sundhya Pahuja, Gerry Simpson

2020-01-01

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