Volume I of The Cambridge History of International Law introduces the historiography of international law as a field of scholarship. After a general introduction to the purposes and design of the series, Part 1 of this volume highlights the diversity of the field in terms of methodologies, disciplinary approaches, and perspectives that have informed both older and newer historiographies in the recent three decades of its rapid expansion. Part 2 surveys the history of international legal history writing from different regions of the world, spanning roughly the past two centuries. The book therefore offers the most complete treatment of the historical development and current state of international law history writing, using both a global and an interdisciplinary perspective.
Introduces The Cambridge History of International Law series
Offers a wide ranging survey of the historiography of international law from a global perspective
Addresses the contributions of various disciplines – law, history, political thought, economics – and regional traditions to the historiography of international law
Table of Contents
1. Scope, scale and humility in the history of international law
Randall Lesaffer
Part I.
The Historiography of International Law: Methods and Approaches Randall Lesaffer and Anne Peters
2. A thousand flowers blooming, or the desert of the real? International Law and its many problems of history
Nehal Bhuta
3. Political thought and the historiography of international law
Mark Somos
4. The turn to the history of international law in the discipline of international relations
Giovanni Mantilla and Carsten-Andreas Schulz
5. Economic history and international law: a peculiar absence
Christopher Casey
Part II. The Historiography of International Law: Regional Traditions
Randall Lesaffer and Anne Peters
6. The historiography of international law in East Asia
Keun-Gwan Lee
7. The historiography of international law in sub-Saharan Africa
Inge Van Hulle
8. The historiography of international law on the European continent
Frederik Dhondt
9. The historiography of international law in Russia and its successor states
Lauri Mälksoo
10. 'The most neglected province': British historiography of international law
David Armitage and Ignacio de la Rasilla
11. The view from the Leviathan: history of international law in the hegemon
John Fabian Witt
12. Using history in Latin America
Arnulf Becker Lorca
Index.
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