A Century of Anarchy?

War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Hendrik Simon, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt) Simon, Hendrik (Researcher, Researcher

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The nineteenth century has been understood as an age in which states could wage war against each other if they deemed it politically necessary. According to this narrative, it was not until the establishment of the League of Nations, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and the UN Charter that the 'free right to go to war' (liberum ius ad bellum) was gradually outlawed. Better times dawned as this anarchy of waging war ended, resulting in radical transformations of international law and politics.However, as a 'free right to go to war' has never been empirically proven, this story of progress is puzzling. In A Century of Anarchy?: War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order, Hendrik Simon challenges this narrative by outlining a genealogy of modern war justifications and drawing on scientific, political, and public discourses. He argues that liberum ius ad bellum is an invention created by realist legal scholars in Imperial Germany who argued against the mainstream of European liberalism and, paradoxically, that the now forgotten Sonderweg reading was universalized in international historiographies after the World Wars.A Century of Anarchy? is a compelling read for historians, jurists, political theorists, international relations scholars, and anyone interested in understanding the emergence of the modern international order. In this groundbreaking work, Simon not only artfully deconstructs the myth of liberum ius ad bellum but also traces the political and theoretical roots of the modern prohibition of war to the long nineteenth century (1789-1918).

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-05-07
Mått160 x 240 x 30 mm
Vikt796 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieThe History and Theory of International Law
Antal sidor432
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780192855503
UtmärkelserWinner, 2024 3rd Jost Delbrück Prize for the International Law of Peace and Conflict Winner, 2025 Helmuth James Moltke Prize

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Mänskliga och medborgerliga rättigheter inom Juridik
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Hendrik Simon is a postdoctoral researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and Lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt. He was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Advanced International Theory/University of Sussex (2017), at the University of Vienna (2018, 2016), at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Frankfurt (2015-16) and at the Cluster of Excellence 'Normative Orders' (2011-12). Publications include The Justification of War and International Order. From Past to Present (OUP 2021; co-edited with Lothar Brock); and 'The Myth of Liberum Ius ad Bellum. Justifying War in 19th-Century International Legal Theory and Political Practice', 29 European Journal of International Law (2018).

Setting the Scene1: Introduction: A Century of Anarchy, a Right to War?2: Thesis and Antithesis: Why States Justify WarPart I. Justifying War in the Nineteenth Century: A European Discourse3: On the Threshold of Modernity: From Revolutionizing to Reordering War4: Birth of an International Order5: Between Might and Right: Justified Wars and Multiple Normativities6: The Promise of 'Peace through Law' in the Shadow of WarPart II. Emergence of a Myth: A German Sonderweg?7: Recht zum Krieg: A Clausewitzian Tradition8: A Hegemonic Discourse? On Mainstream(s) and Myth(s)9: Antinomianism: The Kaiserreich's Politics of Justifying War10: Old Order, New Order: Historiography between Anarchy and ProgressConclusion11: War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order

Is what we got used to call the international community sliding back into anarchy as it prevailed in the era preceding the League of Nations, the Kellogg-Briand-Pact, and the establishment of the UN? In his impressive study Hendrik Simon demonstrates that this would be a wrong conclusion both with a view to our understanding of "the long 19th Century" and of what perhaps may be called the dialectical trinity of war, order, and peace in general. Simon's study opens up a new way of looking at the history of, and the issues at stake in, more recent aspirations to come to grips with the interplay between war and order.