Mestizo International Law

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Arnulf Becker Lorca is a member of the International Relations Program at Brown University, Rhode Island. His research traces the global intellectual history of international law focusing on the role non-Western international lawyers have played in the construction of the international legal order between the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.

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This book explores the historical origins of international law, with a focus on the contributions and participation of non-Western people.

Résumé
How did European international law become a legal regime with a global scope? Arnulf Becker Lorca argues that the appropriation of international legal thinking by peripheral lawyers explains the nineteenth-century globalization of international law and the early twentieth-century development of basic doctrines such as self-determination.

Contenu

Introduction; Part I. Mestizo International Law: 1. Why a global intellectual history of international law?; Part II. Universal International Law: 2. Appropriating classical legal thought; 3. The imposition and negotiation of rules: hybridity and functional equivalences; 4. The expansion of nineteenth-century international law as circulation; Part III. The Fall of Classical Thought and the Turn to Modern International Law: 5. Sovereignty beyond the West, the end of classical international law; 6. Modern international law: good news for the semi-periphery?; Part IV. Modern International Law: 7. Petitioning the international: a 'pre-history' of self-determination; 8. Circumventing self-determination: league membership and armed resistance; 9. Codifying international law: statehood and non-intervention; Conclusion.