Book contents
- International Law and the Cold War
- International Law and the Cold War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- About the Editors
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Reading and Unreading a Historiography of Hiatus
- Part I The Anti-linear Cold War
- Part II The Generative/Productive Cold War
- Part III The Parochial/Plural Cold War
- 16 The Cold War in Soviet International Legal Discourse
- 17 The Dao of Mao: Sinocentric Socialism and the Politics of International Legal Theory
- 18 ‘The Dust of Empire’: the Dialectic of Self-Determination and Re-colonisation in the First Phase of the Cold War
- 19 The ‘Bihar Famine’ and the Authorisation of the Green Revolution in India: Developmental Futures and Disaster Imaginaries
- 20 Pakistan’s Cold War(s) and International Law
- 21 International Law, Cold War Juridical Theatre and the Making of the Suez Crisis
- 22 To Seek with Beauty to Set the World Right: Cold War International Law and the Radical ‘Imaginative Geography’ of Pan-Africanism
- 23 John Le Carré, International Law and the Cold War
- 24 Postcolonial Hauntings and Cold War Continuities: Congolese Sovereignty and the Murder of Patrice Lumumba
- 25 End Times in the Antipodes: Propaganda and Critique in On the Beach
- References to Cold War Volume
- Index
16 - The Cold War in Soviet International Legal Discourse
from Part III - The Parochial/Plural Cold War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2019
Book contents
- International Law and the Cold War
- International Law and the Cold War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- About the Editors
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Reading and Unreading a Historiography of Hiatus
- Part I The Anti-linear Cold War
- Part II The Generative/Productive Cold War
- Part III The Parochial/Plural Cold War
- 16 The Cold War in Soviet International Legal Discourse
- 17 The Dao of Mao: Sinocentric Socialism and the Politics of International Legal Theory
- 18 ‘The Dust of Empire’: the Dialectic of Self-Determination and Re-colonisation in the First Phase of the Cold War
- 19 The ‘Bihar Famine’ and the Authorisation of the Green Revolution in India: Developmental Futures and Disaster Imaginaries
- 20 Pakistan’s Cold War(s) and International Law
- 21 International Law, Cold War Juridical Theatre and the Making of the Suez Crisis
- 22 To Seek with Beauty to Set the World Right: Cold War International Law and the Radical ‘Imaginative Geography’ of Pan-Africanism
- 23 John Le Carré, International Law and the Cold War
- 24 Postcolonial Hauntings and Cold War Continuities: Congolese Sovereignty and the Murder of Patrice Lumumba
- 25 End Times in the Antipodes: Propaganda and Critique in On the Beach
- References to Cold War Volume
- Index
Summary
Borrowing Gerry Simpson’s taxonomy, it was and remains common to think of the Soviet Union as both a ‘great power’ and an ‘outlaw state’. Some historical accounts portray Soviet law as elaborate, specific and complex; but simultaneously, others portray ‘Soviet law’ as a sham. This essay argues that the Soviet approach to Cold War international law hews closer to the former image than the latter. It appears that Soviet faith in international law grew over the course of the Cold War, rather than diminished. This essay is a tentative sketch of the transformation of Soviet faith in law over the course of the Cold War.
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- International Law and the Cold War , pp. 339 - 375Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019