Off the Map

Nikolas M. Rajkovic is Chair of International Law at Tilburg University, and a senior faculty member of Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Policy. He was awarded a Fernand Braudel Fellowship at the European University Institute (2021–22) and continued as a Visiting Fellow at its Law Department from 2022–2025.

• Preface: off the map; 1. The enigma: international law's forgotten geography; 2. Don't look [down]!: international law and its worn geopoetry; 3. Potere incognito: seeing, power and the cartographic world order; 4. From jurisdiction to juriscapes: toward a transformative theory of territorialization; 5. Vidi et vici: the rise and decline of cartographic rule; 6. The crisis of Kartenpolitik; Bibliography; Index.

'This sharp and lucidly argued book offers us powerful insights into the ways in which established perspectives have occluded our understanding of how power works in the international system. It is an indispensable guide to illuminating crucial developments in a time of crisis and bewilderment.' Antony Anghie, University of Utah