International Law and the Cold War

Gerry Simpson editor Sundhya Pahuja editor Matthew Craven editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:1st Jul '21

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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.

'... a volume that definitely refutes the biased view of the Cold War as a terra incognita for international lawyers and summons historians to take up the gauntlet of writing Cold War histories that account for the multiple dimensions in which international law was made and performed during a period we have not entirely moved out to this day.' Etienne Peyrat, Journal of the history of International Law
'… the editors have managed to achieve something rare these days: an edited volume that could almost (but even that is obviously subjective) be read from the beginning until the end instead of merely reading some of its chapters. That deserves a lot of credit. The international law aspects of the Cold War have received the kind of attention and care they deserve more than ever…' Ralph Janik, Austrian Review of International and European Law

ISBN: 9781108713238

Dimensions: 226mm x 152mm x 33mm

Weight: 891g

613 pages