Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order / Edition 1

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The presence of Great Powers and outlaw states is a central but under-explored feature of international society. In this book, Gerry Simpson describes the ways in which an international legal order based on 'sovereign equality' has accommodated the Great Powers and regulated outlaw states since the beginning of the nineteenth century. In doing so, the author offers a fresh understanding of sovereignty, which he terms juridical sovereignty, to show how international law has managed the interplay of three languages: the language of Great Power prerogative, the language of outlawry (or anti-pluralism) and the language of sovereign equality. The co-existence and interaction of these three languages are traced through a number of moments of institutional transformation in the global order from the Congress of Vienna to the 'war on terrorism'. The author, by recalling the lessons of the past, offers a way of understanding recent transformations in the global political order, in particular the recent conflicts in Kosovo and Afghanistan.
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Meet the Author

Gerry Simpson is a Senior Lecturer in the Law Department at the London School of Economics where he teaches Public International Law and International Criminal Law. He has been a Legal Adviser to the Australian Government on international criminal law and was part of the Australian delegation at the Rome Conference in 1998 to establish an international criminal court. He has also worked for several non-governmental organisations and appears regularly in the media discussing the law of war crimes and the law on the use of force in international law. Previous publications include The Law of War Crimes (1997) with Tim McCormack and The Nature of International Law (2001).

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Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Pt. I Introductions
1 Great powers and outlaw states 3
Pt. II Concepts
2 Sovereign equalities 25
3 Legalised hierarchies 62
Pt. III Histories : great powers
4 Legalised hegemony : from Congress to Conference 1815-1906 91
5 'Extreme equality' : rupture at the Second Hague Peace Conference 1907 132
6 The great powers, sovereign equality and the making of the United Nations charter : San Francisco 1945 165
7 Holy alliances : Verona 1822 and Kosovo 1999 194
Pt. IV Histories : outlaw states
8 Unequal sovereigns : 1815-1839 227
9 Peace-loving nations : 1945 254
10 Outlaw states : 1999 278
Pt. V Conclusion
11 Arguing about Afghanistan : great powers and outlaw state redux 319
12 The puzzle of sovereignty 352
Select bibliography 354
Index 372
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