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
4 - TWAIL/Post-colonial 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
One may agree with Martti Koskenniemi that ‘much of the recent surge of interest in the history of international law has been fed by postcolonial attitudes in the legal academy’. The rise of post-colonial international legal historiography ensued logically from the fact that between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall alone eighty-nine colonies reached sovereign independence: eleven in the first five years after the end of World War II; eight in the 1950s; forty-four in the 1960s; twenty-four in the 1970s; and two in the 1980s. Originally spurred by decolonization, in recent years this historiographical trend has been further favoured by globalization and the shift towards a multipolar world.
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- International Law and HistoryModern Interfaces, pp. 117 - 151Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021