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This is an enquiry into the place of the right of conquest in international relations since the early sixteenth century, and the causes and consequences of its demise in the twentieth century. It was a recognized principle of international law until the early years of this century that a state that emerges victorious in a war is entitled to claim sovereignty over territory which it has taken possession. Sharon Korman shows how the First World War - which led to the rise of self-determination and to calls for the prohibition of way - prompted the reconstruction of international law and the consequent abolition of the title by conquest. Her conclusion, which highlights the merits and defects of the modern law as a vehicle for discouraging war by denying the title to the conqueror, challenges many of the assumptions that have come to constitute part of the conventional wisdom of our times. This is a study, not of international law narrowly conceived, but of the place of a changing legal principle in international history and the contemporary world.

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<br> This is a very well done book in a familiar...genre....Korman's book is particularly good of its type. --The American Journal of International Law<p><br> A work of sweeping scope...balanced and judicious. The thinking is lucid yet refined. Korman's work is the most up-to-date study of seizure of territories, and the only one that charts the progress of both the ideology and the application of the right of conquest and the political events and legal principles that gradually undermined and finally dismantled it. -- Stanford Journal of International Law<p><br> The book...won the affection of this reviewer for the elegance of its style and the lightness with which Dr Korman wears her learning...There can be few more important issues than that addressed by Dr Korman in this elegant and erudite book; and it is hard to imagine a better written analysis of it. --War in History (reviewer: Vaughan Lowe QC, Chichele Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford)<p><br> An impressive and deeply analytical book. --International and Comparative Law Quarterly<p><br>. ..immensely stimulating. --British Year Book of International Law<p><br>. ..a brilliant study. --French Yearbook of International Law<p><br> [A]n excellent doctrinal history... Korman's intense passion for her subject is clear. --American Journal of International Law (reviewer: Professor David Kennedy, Harvard Law School)<p><br> This stimulating book deals with a long-neglected and often-misunderstood subject. --Edinburgh Law Review<p><br> Written in a lucid style that sets it apart from many works on international law, the work combines meticulous scholarship in international law with forward-looking International Relations thinking. --Non-Offensive Defense & Conversion<br><p><br>

A work of sweeping scope ... balanced and judicious. The thinking is lucid yet refined Korman's work is the most up-to-date study of seizure of territories, and the only one that charts the progress of both the ideology and the application of the right of conquest and the political events and legal principles that gradually undermined and finally dismantled it. Stanford Journal of International Law [T]he book...won the affection of this reviewer for the elegance of its style and the lightness with which Dr Korman wears her learning...There can be few more important issues than that addressed by Dr Korman in this elegant and erudite book; and it is hard to imagine a better written analysis of it. Vaughan Lowe - War in History [A]n excellent doctrinal history...Kormans intense passion for her subject is clear. David Kennedy - American Journal of International Law [A] brilliant study. French Yearbook of International Law ...immensely stimulating. British Year Book of International Law Written in a lucid style that sets it apart from many works on international law, the work combines meticulous scholarship in international law with forward-looking International Relations thinking. NOD & Conversion An impressive and deeply analytical book. International and Comparative Law Quarterly

This is a very well done book in a familiar...genre....Korman's book is particularly good of its type. --The American Journal of International Law A work of sweeping scope...balanced and judicious. The thinking is lucid yet refined. Korman's work is the most up-to-date study of seizure of territories, and the only one that charts the progress of both the ideology and the application of the right of conquest and the political events and legal principles that gradually undermined and finally dismantled it. -- Stanford Journal of International Law The book...won the affection of this reviewer for the elegance of its style and the lightness with which Dr Korman wears her learning...There can be few more important issues than that addressed by Dr Korman in this elegant and erudite book; and it is hard to imagine a better written analysis of it. --War in History (reviewer: Vaughan Lowe QC, Chichele Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford) An impressive and deeply analytical book. --International and Comparative Law Quarterly. ..immensely stimulating. --British Year Book of International Law. ..a brilliant study. --French Yearbook of International Law [A]n excellent doctrinal history... Korman's intense passion for her subject is clear. --American Journal of International Law (reviewer: Professor David Kennedy, Harvard Law School) This stimulating book deals with a long-neglected and often-misunderstood subject. --Edinburgh Law Review Written in a lucid style that sets it apart from many works on international law, the work combines meticulous scholarship in international law with forward-looking International Relations thinking. --Non-Offensive Defense & Conversion

This is a very well done book in a familiar...genre....Korman's book is particularly good of its type. --The American Journal of International Law<br>

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Dr Sharon Korman is Israel specialist, Société Génd'erale Strauss Turnbull Securities Ltd., London

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