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Rival Legalities
  • International Laws of the Cold War
  • Matthew Craven, Sundhya Pahuja, Gerry Simpson
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    July 2026
    Print publication:
    31 August 2026
  • This book offers a wholly new way of thinking about the ideas, struggles and practices that constituted the 'historical' Cold War. In particular, it seeks to redescribe and defamiliarise what we might think of as Cold War international law in order to bring out a rich but now obscured plurality of law and legal forms during the period and to make visible the ways in which we live and work in the aftermath of this legal order. This book challenges the dominant myths about the history of the Cold War, arguing that far from being defined only by ideologically rivalry, the US and the Soviet Union were engaged in a conjoint project of world ordering.

  • 4 - After Method: International Law and the Problems of History

  • from Part I - Methods, Approaches and Encounters
  • Edited by Annabel Brett, University of Cambridge, Megan Donaldson, University College London, Martti Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki
  • Book:
    History, Politics, Law
    Published online:
    28 September 2021
    Print publication:
    07 October 2021, pp 96-126

  • Summary

    ‘Ah … yes …’ Lord Kessler’s faint smile and tucked-in chin suggested an easily mastered disappointment. ‘And what is your chosen field?’

    ‘Mm. I want to have a look at style,’ Nick said. …

    Lord Kessler appeared uncertain.1

    You’re gone; I am learning to live in history.

    What is history? What you cannot touch. 2

    In the spirit of ‘thinking through the international’ and reflecting on the ways of (historical and juridical) seeing that might enliven (or temper) such thinking, I want to ask a question and make a small plea.

  • 1 - Reading and Unreading a Historiography of Hiatus

  • Edited by Matthew Craven, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Sundhya Pahuja, University of Melbourne, Gerry Simpson, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book:
    International Law and the Cold War
    Published online:
    05 December 2019
    Print publication:
    19 December 2019, pp 1-24

  • Summary

    The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in the years which followed brought into play a new international imaginary launched with a flurry of inaugural gestures. These included the proclamation, by US President George Bush, of a ‘New World Order’ in 1991, the publication, by UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, of an Agenda for Peace in 1992,and, in the most triumphalist gesture of the three, the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s invocation of the end of history. Many international legal scholars, too, applauded the beginning of a new post–Cold War world, no longer dominated by two rival superpowers. It was a moment widely thought to be full of new ‘global’, if not cosmopolitan, possibilities.

International Law and the Cold War
  • Edited by Matthew Craven, Sundhya Pahuja, Gerry Simpson
  • Published online:
    05 December 2019
    Print publication:
    19 December 2019
  • International Law and the Cold War is the first book dedicated to examining the relationship between the Cold War and International Law. The authors adopt a variety of creative approaches - in relation to events and fields such as nuclear war, environmental protection, the Suez crisis and the Lumumba assassination - in order to demonstrate the many ways in which international law acted upon the Cold War and in turn show how contemporary international law is an inheritance of the Cold War. Their innovative research traces the connections between the Cold War and contemporary legal constructions of the nation-state, the environment, the third world, and the refugee; and between law, technology, science, history, literature, art, and politics.

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