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- International Law and History
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 152
- International Law and History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Turn to the History of International Law
- 2 Contextual Approaches to the History of International Law
- 3 Critical/Postmodern Approaches to the History of International Law
- 4 TWAIL/Post-colonial Approaches to the History of International Law
- 5 Global Approaches to the History of International Law
- 6 Feminist Approaches to the History of International Law
- 7 Normative Approaches to the History of International Law
- 8 Sociological Approaches to the History of International Law
- 9 Institutional Approaches to the History of International Law
- 10 Biographical Approaches to the History of International Law
- 11 Multi-perspectivity and Periodization in the History of International Law
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
11 - Multi-perspectivity and Periodization in the History of International Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 January 2021
- International Law and History
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 152
- International Law and History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Turn to the History of International Law
- 2 Contextual Approaches to the History of International Law
- 3 Critical/Postmodern Approaches to the History of International Law
- 4 TWAIL/Post-colonial Approaches to the History of International Law
- 5 Global Approaches to the History of International Law
- 6 Feminist Approaches to the History of International Law
- 7 Normative Approaches to the History of International Law
- 8 Sociological Approaches to the History of International Law
- 9 Institutional Approaches to the History of International Law
- 10 Biographical Approaches to the History of International Law
- 11 Multi-perspectivity and Periodization in the History of International Law
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Summary
The thematic expansion and methodological sophistication experienced by historical writing about international law has greatly enriched contemporary international legal scholarship. Up to a point it has also prompted the intellectual emancipation of international legal history, which until not long ago was considered to be ‘a singularly underprivileged field of studies’ as a semi-autonomous and relatively self-contained research area. This is not a minor intellectual development in itself and neither one without significance for the discipline as a whole to continue evolving, as Jürgen Habermas would put it, from ‘a flexible medium for shifting constellations of power’ towards ‘a crucible in which quasi-natural power relations could be dissolved.
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- International Law and HistoryModern Interfaces, pp. 339 - 374Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021