Book contents
- 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
5 - Global Approaches to 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
In its post-2000s expansion, the history of international law has more openly embraced the interdisciplinary pollination of a research field that blends international relations theory and its historical discourse, legal history, the history of ideas and political thought, and history writ large with the history of international legal practice and theory. It is being currently cultivated by a heterogeneous group of scholars made up of international lawyers occasionally transmuted into amateur historians; legal historians sporadically struggling to present themselves as savvy international lawyers; historians of international political thought sometimes posing as all the aforementioned; and, occasionally too, professional historians, who, as Andrew Fitzmaurice notes, are increasingly ‘engaging with the subject as part of their turn to the international dimension of history’. The disciplinary boundaries of international legal history have correspondingly become more fruitfully porous to a number of adjacent academic disciplines which, like international law itself, have also been significantly impacted by globalization and, in its wake, by the decrease in the intellectual leverage of ‘methodological nationalism’ which the professional birth of the academic disciplines of both law and history were born tied to in the late nineteenth century.
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- International Law and HistoryModern Interfaces, pp. 152 - 182Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021