Socialism and International Law
The Cold War and Its Legacies
Series: The History and Theory of International Law;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 December 2024
- ISBN 9780198920175
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 240x164x24 mm
- Weight 610 g
- Language English 1070
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Short description:
From Eastern Europe to Africa and Asia, socialist governments and experts have fundamentally shaped progressive ideas of international law: from anti-imperialism and anti-racism, to health as a human right. This volume explores the importance of these contributions pre- and post-Cold War, as well as their relevance to current international crises.
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The contributions of socialist thinkers and states to the development of international law often go unrecognized. Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies explores how socialist individuals and governments from Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia made vital contributions to international law as it is practiced today, and also brought ideas and initiatives that constituted important disruptive moments in its history.
The socialist world of the 20th century was an ambiguous and fragile construct: there were clear divisions between the Soviet-led Eastern Bloc, which kept one foot in Western Eurocentric traditions, and the positions of the radical Third World, primarily post-colonial Afro-Asian states, which mounted a more fundamental challenge to the international order. Far from a monolith, the socialist world was an intricate and dynamic space, which still had many shared common understandings of global affairs and the meaning of the law within them.
By examining how different state socialist ideologies, legal principles, and realpolitik affected contemporary international law frameworks, this book contests existing linear and Western-dominated histories. It considers these state socialist engagements in conversation with liberal and Western approaches and underlines the divisions that existed between versions of socialism from different regions and across the North-South divide. The legacies of socialist international law are still with us today, as are the consequences of its failure.
With a focus on the Cold War and its aftermath, Socialist International Law features astute commentary on the history and present-day effects of socialist principles applied to international law, provided by an esteemed and diverse group of contributors from around the world.
Socialism and International Law. The Cold War and its Legacies offers a compelling argument for recognizing the contributions of socialist states to the development of international law. It provides an overview of the early intra-socialist theoretical debates over the role of law in socialist societies and then charts the development of pluralistic socialist approaches to international law. Subsequently, the book details the contributions of socialist states to a variety of core fields of international law, such as national self determination, decolonization, peace, and anti-apartheid. Hence, historians and legal scholars of international law will find this book crucial in developing new research directions.
Table of Contents:
Socialism and International Law: Legacies of Innovation, Contradiction, and Failure
A Socialist Legal Universalism? Cold War Struggles Over International Law
Socialism and Self-Determination: Lenin, International Law, and National Liberation
Soviet Lawyers and Concepts of Aggression in International Law
Decentring Marxism: The Pozna
