Overview
- Provides an extensive overview of utopianism in international law since the end of World War I
- Introduces a new concept, emancipatory idealism, into the debate surrounding international law
- Offers a thorough historical analysis of international law in the 20th and 21st century
- Investigates the primacy of the State in international law through the lens of legal and political theory
Part of the book series: Philosophy, Public Policy, and Transnational Law (PPPTL)
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This book analyses the history of international law to reveal the significant role utopianism has played in developing the international legal system. In fact, when pinpointing the legal system’s most accelerated phases of development, it becomes increasingly apparent how integral utopianism has been in dealing with the international community’s most troubled periods such as the World Wars. However, States have on numerous occasions undermined utopianism, leading to situations where individuals and communities have been vulnerable to modes of oppression such as war or repressive regimes. Thus, by examining the League of Nations and United Nations, this book seeks to show why utopianism continues to be a vital ingredient when the international community is seeking to ensure its loftiest and most ambitious goals such as maintaining international peace and security, and why for the sake of such utopian aspirations, the primary position States enjoy in international law requires reassessment.
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Keywords
- international law
- utopianism
- Carl Schmitt
- Critical Theory
- Hegel
- Foucault
- Hans Kelsen
- legal theory
- League of Nations
- United Nations
- human rights
- emancipatory idealism
- political theory
- influential States
- State Primacy
- international community
- international relations theory
- Security Council
- power politics
- public international law
Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Deepak Mawar is a Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London, UK, specializing in the fields of international legal history, legal & political theory and global governance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: States Undermining International Law
Book Subtitle: The League of Nations, United Nations, and Failed Utopianism
Authors: Deepak Mawar
Series Title: Philosophy, Public Policy, and Transnational Law
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64789-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64788-9Published: 21 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64791-9Published: 22 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64789-6Published: 20 January 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-2371
Series E-ISSN: 2946-238X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 235
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, International Relations Theory, Public International Law , Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Political Philosophy