War, Peace and International Order?

Maartje Abbenhuis is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.Christopher Ernest Barber is a PhD candidate in International History at the University of Auckland.Annalise R. Higgins is a recent graduate of the University of Auckland and a PhD candidate in World History at the University of Cambridge.

• Introduction: Unbridled Promise? The Hague’s Peace Conferences and Their LegaciesMaartje Abbenhuis1 Justifying International Action: International Law, The Hague and Diplomacy Before 1914William Mulligan2 Peace Through Law: The Hague Peace Conferences and the Rise of the Ius Contra BellumRandall Lesaffer3 Muddied Waters: The Influence of the First Hague Conference on the Evolution of the Geneva Conventions of 1864 and 1906Neville Wylie4 Reconsidering Disarmament at the Hague Peace Conference of 1899, and AfterAndrew Webster5 More than Just a Taboo: The Legacy of the Chemical Warfare Prohibitions of the 1899 and 1907 Hague ConferencesM. Girard Dorsey6 Sub Silentio: The Sexual Assault of Women in International LawSarah Gendron7 The Duel of Honour and the Origins of the Rules for Arms, Warfare and Arbitration in the Hague ConferencesRobert A. Nye 8 Writing for Peace: Reconsidering the British Public Peace Petitioning Movement’s Historical Legacies After 1898Annalise R. Higgins9 The Hague as a Framework for British and American Newspapers’ Public Presentations of the First World WarThomas Munro 10 Norway’s Legalistic Approach to Peace in the Aftermath of the First World WarMarta Stachurska-Kounta11 Against the Hague Conventions: Promoting New Rules for Neutrality in the Cold War Wolfgang Mueller12 The Neutrals and Spanish Neutrality: A Legal Approach to International Peace in Constitutional Texts Yolanda Gamarra