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.

Iulian Petre Jianu, RevDem

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.
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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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1: Raluca Grosescu and Ned Richardson-Little: Socialism and International Law: Legacies of Innovation, Contradiction, and Failure 2: Sebastian Gehrig: A Socialist Legal Universalism? Cold War Struggles Over International Law 3: Brad Simpson: Socialism and Self-Determination: Lenin, International Law, and National Liberation 4: Michelle Penn: Soviet Lawyers and Concepts of Aggression in International Law 5: Jakub Szumski: Decentring Marxism: The Pozna'n School and Socialist International Law in Eastern Europe after 1945 6: Ryan Martínez Mitchell: How China Came to Embrace International Institutions 7: Bogdan C. Iacob: Health as a Human Right and Eastern European Anticolonialism 8: Nelly Bekus: Protecting Culture Through International Law in the Postwar World 9: Sonja Dolinsek and Philippa Hetherington: Socialist Internationalism and Decolonizing Moralities in the UN Anti-Trafficking Regime, 1947-54 10: Raluca Grosescu: State Socialist Contributions to the Criminalization of Apartheid 11: Ned Richardson-Little: Terrorists, Revolutionaries, and Migrants: Cold War Conflicts and Convergences over International Air Hijacking Law 12: Paul Betts: Socialisms and International Law: Epilogue
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Raluca Grosescu is a lecturer in politics at the National University of Political Science and Public Administration in Bucharest. After a PhD in political science at the University of Nanterre, she worked in different universities and research institutes across Europe, including Exeter University, the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena. Her latest monograph, Justice and Memory after Dictatorship: Latin America, Central Eastern Europe and the Fragmentation of International Criminal Law was published in 2024 by Oxford University Press. She also led various international projects, including the ERC-Consolidator Grant Transnational Advocacy Networks and Corporate Accountability for Major International Crimes and the Romanian Research Council Grant State Socialist Contributions to the Development of International Criminal and Humanitarian Law after 1945. Ned Richardson-Little is a Research Fellow in Department V: Globalizations in a Divided World at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam (ZZF). Previously a Freigeist Fellow at the Department of History at the University of Erfurt leading the Volkswagen Stiftung funded research group The Other Global Germany: Deviant Globalization and Transnational Criminality in the 20th Century, he is currently a principal investigator on the project Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe: Historical Analysis in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives. His first monograph The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany was released with Cambridge University Press in 2020.
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Offers an original historical account of contributions to international law by socialist states often overlooked in Western-centric and anti-colonial scholarship Combines perspectives from a wide configuration of socialist actors, including governments and diplomats, transnational legal networks, and individual scholars and experts Draws source material from the records of international organizations (including those of the UN, UNESCO, the WHO, and ICAO) and national archives (China, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Tanzania, etc.) Written in an accessible style suitable for teaching in undergraduate and graduate courses
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198920175
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
610 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
164 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
304

Biographical note

Raluca Grosescu is a lecturer in politics at the National University of Political Science and Public Administration in Bucharest. After a PhD in political science at the University of Nanterre, she worked in different universities and research institutes across Europe, including Exeter University, the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena. Her latest monograph, Justice and Memory after Dictatorship: Latin America, Central Eastern Europe and the Fragmentation of International Criminal Law was published in 2024 by Oxford University Press. She also led various international projects, including the ERC-Consolidator Grant Transnational Advocacy Networks and Corporate Accountability for Major International Crimes and the Romanian Research Council Grant State Socialist Contributions to the Development of International Criminal and Humanitarian Law after 1945. Ned Richardson-Little is a Research Fellow in Department V: Globalizations in a Divided World at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam (ZZF). Previously a Freigeist Fellow at the Department of History at the University of Erfurt leading the Volkswagen Stiftung funded research group The Other Global Germany: Deviant Globalization and Transnational Criminality in the 20th Century, he is currently a principal investigator on the project Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe: Historical Analysis in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives. His first monograph The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany was released with Cambridge University Press in 2020.