A century of anarchy? : war, normativity, and the birth of modern international order /

A century of anarchy? : war, normativity, and the birth of modern international order

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Main Author: Oxford University Press ()
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press ()
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.
Series:The History and Theory of International Law Series
Subjects:
Schmitt, Carl > (1888-1985)
Kant, Immanuel > (1724-1804)
Bentham, Jeremy
Historia prawa międzynarodowego i stosunków międzynarodowych
Prusy Królewskie / Royal Prussia
Niemcy / Germany
Francja / France
Włochy / Italy
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In the beginning there was anarchy—but was there? The nineteenth century is (mis)understood as a century in which states were free to wage war against each other whenever they deemed it politically necessary. Not until the League of Nations, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and the UN Charter was this ‘free right to go to war’ (liberum ius ad bellum) gradually outlawed. The dark times of anarchy were over. Lighter times dawned—and, with them, ‘radical transformations’ of international law and politics. This story of progress is widely shared. But it is puzzling. For a ‘free right to go to war’ has never been empirically proven. By outlining a genealogy of modern war justifications and drawing on multiple political and normative discourses, A Century of Anarchy? argues that this ‘right’ actually never existed (Part I). Rather, it was an invention by realist legal scholars in Imperial Germany who argued against the mainstream of European liberalism (Part II). Paradoxically, this now forgotten Sonderweg reading was universalized in international historiographies after the World Wars. But the characterization of nineteenth-century international relations as anarchic is as inaccurate as it is widespread: in addition to deconstructing the myth of liberum ius ad bellum, this book traces the political and theoretical roots of the modern prohibition of war in the ‘long nineteenth century’ (1789–1918). The latter is not to be understood as the anarchic photo-negative of the modern international order governing the use of force. It was the era of its birth.


Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a century of anarchy, a right to war? (s. 3–21) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855503.003.0001
  • Thesis and antithesis : why states justify war (s. 22–60) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855503.003.0002
  • On threshold of modernity : from revolutionizing to reordering war (s. 63–108) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855503.003.0003
  • Birth of an international order (s. 109–152) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855503.003.0004
  • Between might and right: justified wars and multiple normativities (s. 153–200) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855503.003.0005
  • The promise of 'peace through law' in the shadow of war (s. 201–238) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855503.003.0006
  • Recht zum krieg: a clausewitzian tradition (s. 241–281) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855503.003.0007
  • A hegemonic discourse? : On mainstream(s) and myth(s) (s. 282–305) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855503.003.0008
  • Antinomianism : The Kaiserreich's politics of justifying war (s. 306–332) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855503.003.0009
  • Old order, new order : Historiography between anarchy and progress (s. 333–356) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855503.003.0010
  • War, normativity, and the birth of modern international order (s. 359–368) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855503.003.0011