BOOK: Patrick CORS, "The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics, 1860–1933" (CUP, 2022)

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This magisterial new history elucidates a momentous transformation process that changed the world: the struggle to create, for the first time, a modern Atlantic order in the long twentieth century (1860–2020). Placing it in a broader historical and global context, Patrick O. Cohrs reinterprets the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as the original attempt to supersede the Eurocentric 'world order' of the age of imperialism and found a more legitimate peace system – a system that could not yet be global but had to be essentially transatlantic. Yet he also sheds new light on why, despite remarkable learning-processes, it proved impossible to forge a durable Atlantic peace after a First World War that became the long twentieth century's cathartic catastrophe. In a broader perspective this ground-breaking study shows what a decisive impact this epochal struggle has had not only for modern conceptions of peace, collective security and an integrative, rule-based international order but also for formative ideas of self-determination, liberal-democratic government and the West.

Awards:

Winner, 2023 PROSE World History Award, Association of American Publishers

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BOOK: Umut ÖZSU: "Completing Humanity The International Law of Decolonization, 1960–82" (CUP, 2023)

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After the Second World War, the dissolution of European empires and emergence of 'new states' in Asia, Africa, Oceania, and elsewhere necessitated large-scale structural changes in international legal order. In Completing Humanity, Umut Özsu recounts the history of the struggle to transform international law during the twentieth century's last major wave of decolonization. Commencing in 1960, with the General Assembly's landmark decolonization resolution, and concluding in 1982, with the close of the third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea and the onset of the Latin American debt crisis, the book examines the work of elite international lawyers from newly independent states alongside that of international law specialists from 'First World' and socialist states. A study in modifications to legal theory and doctrine over time, it documents and reassesses post-1945 decolonization from the standpoint of the 'Third World' and the jurists who elaborated and defended its interests.

• Describes, explains, and critically analyzes changes to international legal theory and doctrine during the late twentieth century
• Details efforts by international lawyers and others from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and beyond to restructure international law
• Examines international legal debates about decolonization in conjunction with debates about development, political economy, and economic history

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BOOK: Marcelo KOHEN & Iris VAN DER HEIJDEN (eds.), Liber Memorialis 1873-2023. Institute of International Law, 150 Years of Contributing to the Development of International Law – Justitia et Pace (1873-2023), (Paris, 2023)

 

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Abstract:

In light of the 150th anniversary of the Institut de Droit international, a book has been published on its history and work. It contains 45 chapters (16 FR, 29 EN) written by several of its members. Part I focuses on its evolution through a historical lens and the role it has played so far, discussing its mission, composition, codifying role, external relations, dissemination, and the interaction of private international law and public international law. Part II focuses on its contribution to the codification and development of international law in different areas: settlement of disputes, sources, ius in bello and ius ad bellum, individual and collective human rights, regulation of spaces, and harmonization of private international law.  The book addresses the challenges and controversies that arose in the course of the work; the resolutions adopted, their impact and the way forward. It concludes with the position of the Institute in today’s world and its future.

Table of contents:

I. THE EVOLUTION OF THE INSTITUT DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL AND THE ROLE IT HAS PLAYED DURING ITS 150 YEARS OF EXISTENCE

1. Les premiers temps de l’Institut de Droit International (1874–1913)

Jean SALMON

2. The Institut de Droit International during the Inter-War Period (1919–1937)

Laurie MÄLKSOO

3. The Institut de Droit international in the Cold War: Aspects of Public International Law (1947–1991)

Martti KOSKENNIEMI

4. L’Institut de Droit international et le phénomène colonial

Georges ABI-SAAB et Fatsah OUGUERGOUZ

5. The Institut de Droit international in Today’s World

Hilary CHARLESWORTH

6. La perception du travail de codification par l’Institut de Droit international à travers le temps

Alain PELLET

7. Four International Law Sisters (IDI, ILA, Hague Academy and ILC): Similarities, Differences, and Interactions

Nico SCHRIJVER

8. La composition de l’Institut de Droit international à travers le temps

Pierre D’ARGENT

9 The Contribution of the Institut de Droit international to the Dissemination and Teaching of International Law

Antonio Remiro BROTÓNS

10. L’interaction entre le droit international privé et le droit international public : son impact sur le travail de l’IDI

Diego P. FERNÁNDEZ ARROYO

 

II. THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE INSTITUT DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL TO THE CODIFICATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

A. THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE INSTITUT DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL TO THE PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES

11. Arbitration between States

Raúl Emilio VINUESA

12. International Judicial Settlement

Abdulqawi YUSUF

13. Investment Arbitration

Stanimir ALEXANDROV

14. Non-Adjudicative Dispute Settlement Means

Rüdiger WOLFRUM

B. THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE INSTITUT DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL TO THE CLARIFICATION OF THE SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

15. Law of Treaties

Georg NOLTE

16. Identification of Customary International Law

Peter TOMKA

17. Of Fragments, Concepts and Missions: General Principles of Law

Jorge VIÑUALES

C. THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE INSTITUT DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL TO THE LIMITATION OF THE IUS AD BELLUM AND THE EVOLUTION OF IUS IN BELLO

18. The Development of International Humanitarian Law

Eyal BENVENISTI

19. The Non-Use of Force in International Law

Mónica PINTO

D. THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE INSTITUT DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL TO THE REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

20. The Principle of Non-Intervention

Dire TLADI

21. The Issue of Immunity

Gerhard HAFNER

22. Extraterritorial Jurisdiction

August REINISCH

23. International Responsibility

James CRAWFORD and Nikiforos PANAGIS

24. La reconnaissance des Etats et des Gouvernements

Jorge CARDONA LLORENS

25. Succession of States

Václav MIKULKA

26. Neutrality

Daniel THÜRER

27. International Organizations

Olufemi ELIAS

E. THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE INSTITUT DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL TO THE REGULATION OF SPACES

28. Les cours d’eau internationaux

Lucius CAFLISCH

29. Law of the Sea

Jin-Huyn PAIK

30. Territory

Sienho YEE

31. Vessels

James KATEKA

32. Droit international de l’environnement

Laurence BOISSON DE CHAZOURNES

F. THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE INSTITUT DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL TO THE REGULATION OF INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE RIGHTS

33. International Human Rights Law / Droits de la personne humaine

Note by the editors

34. Droit des minorités

Linos-Alexandre SICILIANOS

35. La nationalité

Paul LAGARDE

36. International Criminal Law

John DUGARD

37. Droit des étrangers – Traitement des réfugiés – Migration

Maurice KAMTO

G. THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE INSTITUT DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL TO THE HARMONIZATION OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW

38. Personal Status in Private International Law: The law of individuals, family relations and succession

Jürgen BASEDOW

39. L’évolution du statut personnel de droit privé : Apogée, déclin, remise en cause

Bernard AUDIT

40. Personnes morales

José Carlos FERNÁNDEZ ROZAS

41. The Law of Property and Expropriation

Hans VAN HOUTTE

42. L’harmonisation des conflits de lois

Léna GANNAGÉ

43. Contractual and Non-contractual Obligations in Private International Law

Symeon C. SYMEONIDES

44. Juridiction et exécution des jugements étrangers en matière civile

et commerciale

Fausto POCAR 

CONCLUSION 150 ans d’influence en droit international : l’Institut tourné vers l’avenir Marcelo KOHEN

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