From law to history: the politics of war and empire

Barkawi, Tarak ORCID: 0000-0001-5526-5055 (2018) From law to history: the politics of war and empire. Global Constitutionalism, 7 (3). pp. 315-329. ISSN 2045-3817

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Abstract

The Internationalists argues that the outlawry of war in 1928 created the modern international order. This review essay critiques this single-cause account of world history. It shows how The Internationalists relies on statistics that obfuscate the character of war and on a juridical model of international politics that makes liberal empire invisible. I argue that war making by Asian and African peasants played more of a role in bringing about decolonisation than peacemaking by Western lawyers.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2018 Cambridge University Press
Divisions:	International Relations
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
Date Deposited:	01 Apr 2019 09:00
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2025 18:18
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/100394

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