International Law and the Cold War

This is the first book to examine in detail the relationship between the Cold War and International Law.

This study of the relationship between the Cold War and international law will be attractive to those who are interested in the history of the Cold War, the future of international society and the origins of the global political and economic system of the twenty-first century.International Law and the Cold War is the first book dedicated to examining the relationship between the Cold War and International Law. The authors adopt a variety of creative approaches - in relation to events and fields such as nuclear war, environmental protection, the Suez crisis and the Lumumba assassination - in order to demonstrate the many ways in which international law acted upon the Cold War and in turn show how contemporary international law is an inheritance of the Cold War. Their innovative research traces the connections between the Cold War and contemporary legal constructions of the nation-state, the environment, the third world, and the refugee; and between law, technology, science, history, literature, art, and politics.