Overview

Ethnic, nationalist, and religious conflicts and debates about international intervention have been central global preoccupations of the past hundred years. Such debates, this volume argues, were first framed in their modern form during the interwar period, when a “Modernist break” (akin to that in literature, philosophy, and the arts) transformed the way such conflicts were viewed. Internationalists began to cast identity-based claims — whether those of anti-colonialists or European separatists — not only as mortal dangers to international order but as indispensable to its revitalization. Drawing on cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and psychoanalysis — with case studies ranging from 1930s Ethiopia to 1990s Jerusalem — this volume looks at both the origins and legacy of these debates, offering a radical reinterpretation of modern internationalism.

Full Product Details

Author:   Emmanuelle Jouannet ,  Euan MacDonald ,  Nathaniel Berman ,  Emmanuelle Jouannet (Universit?? de Paris I Universite de Paris I Universit?? de Paris I)
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Martinus Nijhoff
Volume:   6/3
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.963kg
ISBN:  

9789004210240

ISBN 10:   9004210245
Pages:   473
Publication Date:   23 December 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.

Table of Contents

A Critical Introduction Emmanuelle Jouannet Part I. Empire and the International 1. In the Wake of Empire 2. Intervention in a 'Divided World': Axes of Legitimacy Part II. Passions, Legal and Nationalist: The Modernist Renewal of International 3. But the Alternative is Despair': European Nationalism and the Modernist Renewal of International Law 4. Between 'Alliance' and 'Localization': Nationalism and the New Oscillationism 5. The Nationality Decrees Case, or, of Intimacy and Consent 6. Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism? Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia, and 'Peaceful Change' Part III. Of Law and Fantasy 7. Nationalism 'Good' and 'Bad': Vicissitudes of an Obsession 8. Legalizing Jerusalem, or, of Law, Fantasy, and Faith Part IV. Ambivalence and Power 9. Imperial Ambivalences: Scenes from a Critical History of Internationalis"" Index

Reviews

[...] [P]athbreaking interventions that have had wide influence and we are fortunate tot have these gathered together in a single volume. In addition, collectively, these interventions enact a distinct presence that is even more than the sum of its parts. - Dr. Vasuki Nesiah, in: Global Law Books, 19.4.2013 Berman's work counts among the most exciting and important scholarship to have come out of the discipline over the last two decades. Berman [...] has found a unique approach to his themes by incorporating impulses from cultural studies, psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory into a close scrutiny of archival files and data material. - Alexandra Kemmerer, in: Transnational Legal Theory 3/1 (2012), pp. 87-94

[...] [P]athbreaking interventions that have had wide influence and we are fortunate tot have these gathered together in a single volume. In addition, collectively, these interventions enact a distinct presence that is even more than the sum of its parts. Dr. Vasuki Nesiah, Global Law Books, 19.4.2013 Berman's work counts among the most exciting and important scholarship to have come out of the discipline over the last two decades. Berman [...] has found a unique approach to his themes by incorporating impulses from cultural studies, psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory into a close scrutiny of archival files and data material. Alexandra Kemmerer, Transnational Legal Theory, Vol. 3, Issue 1 (2012), pp. 87-94

Author Information

Nathaniel Berman (B.A. Yale, J.D. Harvard Law) is the Rahel Varnhagen Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Modern Culture at the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University. He has published widely on international law, cultural modernism, nationalism, and colonialism.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Countries Available

All regions