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From law to history: The politics of war and empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2018

TARAK BARKAWI
TARAK BARKAWI*
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Department of International Relations, London School of Economics, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE
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*Email: t.k.barkawi@lse.ac.uk
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Abstract:

The Internationalists argues that the outlawry of war in 1928 created the modern international order. This review essay critiques this single-cause account of world history. It shows how The Internationalists relies on statistics that obfuscate the character of war and on a juridical model of international politics that makes liberal empire invisible. I argue that war making by Asian and African peasants played more of a role in bringing about decolonisation than peacemaking by Western lawyers.

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decolonisationempireinternational lawwar

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Global Constitutionalism , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , November 2018 , pp. 315 - 329
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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