Book contents
- Rewriting Histories of the Use of Force
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 160
- Rewriting Histories of the Use of Force
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Use of Force in Nineteenth-Century Doctrine
- Part II The Use of Force in Nineteenth-Century Practice
- Part III The Narrative of Indifference in the Twentieth Century
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 September 2021
- Rewriting Histories of the Use of Force
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 160
- Rewriting Histories of the Use of Force
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Use of Force in Nineteenth-Century Doctrine
- Part II The Use of Force in Nineteenth-Century Practice
- Part III The Narrative of Indifference in the Twentieth Century
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Summary
It has been argued that every major crisis of international law has seen a return of the discipline to its history. There indeed appears to be an urge to go back to the foundations and to the fundamentals in periods of transition and uncertainty; a need to take stock of the past in order to know how to situate one’s self in the present and plan for the future. Returns to the past, are, in sum and in most instances, guided by present social, political or even psychological needs. In the course of this research, we have seen how the narrative of the indifference of international law to the use of force before the twentieth century emerged in the interwar scholarship as a means to rationalize the events of the World War I and enable the discipline to move past the failure which they represented.
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- Rewriting Histories of the Use of ForceThe Narrative of ‘Indifference', pp. 320 - 328Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021