Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- 1 "The legal conscience of the civilized world " -- A manifesto -- An old-fashioned tradition -- A transitional critic: Kaltenborn von Stachau -- An amateur science -- A time of danger -- A meeting in Ghent, 1873 -- A romantic profession: Bluntschli -- A social conception of law -- Method: enlightened inwardness -- Towards a culture of human rights: Fiore -- Advancing the liberal project -- Limits of liberalism -- Cultural consciousness -- Culture as character -- The elusive sensibility -- 2 Sovereignty: a gift of civilization - international lawyers and imperialism, 1870-1914 -- Ambivalent attitudes -- Informal empire 1815-1870: hic sunt leones -- The lawyers 1815-1870 -- The demise of informal empire in Africa -- The Berlin Conference 1884-1885 -- The myth of civilization: a logic of exclusion-inclusion -- Looking for a standard -- Between universality and relativism: colonial treaties -- The myth of sovereignty: a beneficent empire -- The limits of sovereignty: civilization betrayed -- Occupation is nothing - Fashoda -- Sovereignty as terror - the Congo -- From sovereignty to internationalization -- 3 International law as philosophy: Germany 1871-1933 -- 1871: law as the science of the legal form -- From form to substance: the doctrine of the rational will -- Between the dangerous and the illusory State -- Rechtsstaat - domestic and international: Georg Jellinek -- Rationalism and politics: a dificulty -- Drawing lines in the profession -- Public law and the Hague Treaties -- A pacifist profession? Kohler, Schücking, and the First World War -- The internationalists: between sociology and formalism -- 1914 -- Getting organized -- Beyond Versailles: the end of German internationalism.

Ways of escape - I: Hans Kelsen and liberalism as science -- Ways of escape - II: Erich Kaufmann and the conservative reaction -- Break: the end of philosophy -- 4 International law as sociology: French "solidarism" 1871-1950 -- Internationalism as nationalism: the idea of France -- From civilists to functionalists 1874-1918: Renault to Pillet -- Solidarity at the Hague: Léon Bourgeois -- The theory of solidarism -- The war of 1914-1918 and solidarism -- Scientific solidarism: Durkheim and Duguit -- International solidarity ...almost: Alvarez and Politis -- Meanwhile in Paris ... -- L'affaire Scelle -- Solidarity with tradition: Louis Le Fur -- The solidarity of fact: Georges Scelle -- Which solidarity? Whose tradition? The Spanish Civil War -- The European Union -- The twilight of the idea of France: between politics and pragmatism -- 5 Lauterpacht: the Victorian tradition in international law -- Tradition in modernity -- A complete system -- Between Zionism and assimilation -- A political commitment -- Nuremberg and human rights -- The birth of pragmatism -- A Grotian tradition? -- Coda -- 6 Out of Europe: Carl Schmitt, Hans Morgenthau, and the turn to "international relations" -- A 1950 retrospective -- Vision of a new order -- The ambivalences of a Katechon (restrainer) -- A discipline transforms itself: Schmitt on Scelle and Lauterpacht -- Against liberal neutralizations and depoliticizations -- "Whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat" -- Schmitt and Morgenthau: the primacy of the political -- Another retrospective -- International law and politics: an asymmetrical relationship -- The formation of a German thinker: between law and desire -- The guardian of international law: sanctions -- Schmitt and Morgenthau: the pedigree of anti-formalism -- From international law to international relations.

The heritage of realism in American international law -- Empire's law -- A culture of formalism? -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

Legal analysis, historical and political critique of the rise and fall of modern international law.

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