The High Tide of Anticolonial Legalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Samuel Moyn
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
High Tide ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Great Power Politics ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Postcolonial States ◽  
As If

Abstract For a time in the 1960s it seemed as if one domain in which the global south’s enthusiastic struggle to arrogate the mantle of universalism as an exercise in “worldmaking” was the transformation of international law. Though this struggle was ultimately circumvented by great power politics and newer forms of international law and organization, it was a crucial moment. The introductory prosopographical survey that follows seeks to recapture the consensus of a set of northern and southern international lawyers in the 1960s who saw potential in the project of transforming their field to register the aims of a new epoch – the aims of postcolonial states.

Global versus National

Age of Iron ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 70-104
Author(s):  
Colin Dueck
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Clinton Presidency ◽  
Great Power Politics ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter describes the efforts of various Republican presidents and congressional leaders to strike balances between nationalist and internationalist priorities between the 1960s and 2015. Barry Goldwater championed a hawkish Sunbelt conservatism that in the long run helped remake the Republican Party. President Nixon pursued a foreign policy based upon assumptions of great-power politics and realpolitik. President Reagan led an ideologically charged effort at anti-Communist rollback, although he was careful not to overextend the United States in any large-scale wars on the ground. Republicans during the Clinton presidency struggled to reformulate conservative foreign policy assumptions in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse. George W. Bush remade conservative foreign policy into a war on terror, aiming at the democratization of the Greater Middle East. Finally, during the presidency of Barack Obama, Republican foreign policy factions once again splintered, paving the way for a conservative nationalist resurgence.

scholarly journals Antony Anghie, Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Cervini
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
International Law ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Political Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
Great Power Politics ◽  
History Of International Law

Antony Anghie’s book Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law ambitiously seeks to retell the history of international law from the standpoint of the developing world. This book covers five centuries of international law, through three different but related approaches: an historical approach which documents modern international law from colonial times to the present; a jurisprudential- philosophical approach which attempts to tease out the important concepts and theories behind international law; and a political approach which seeks to understand international law from the perspective of great-power politics, economic development, globalization and nation building.

Governmentality of the Arctic as an international region

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Albert ◽  
Andreas Vasilache
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Great Power ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
Great Power Politics ◽  
Governmentality Studies

Linked to the image of a wild and still-to-be-explored territory, as well as to images of the region as one of new economic opportunities, discourses on the Arctic also tie in with issues of climate change, cooperation and conflict, Arctic governance, international law and the situation and rights of indigenous people, as well as Great Power politics. Taken together, these aspects characterize a region whose formation is different from regionalization processes in other parts of the world. As the regional peculiarity of the Arctic is reflected by a variety and plurality of representations, discourses, perceptions and imaginaries, it can usefully be analyzed as a region of unfolding governmentality. The present article argues that the prospects for the Arctic are strongly intertwined with perceptions and depictions of it as an international region subject to emerging practices of governmentality. By drawing on both Foucault’s texts and governmentality studies in international relations (IR), we discuss how the Arctic is affected by governmental security rationalities, by specific logics of political economy and order-building, as well as becoming a subject for biopolitical rationalizations and imaginaries. The discourses and practices of governmentality that permeate the Arctic contribute to its spatial, figurative and political reframing and are aimed at making it a governable region that can be addressed by, and accessible for, ordering rationalities and measures.

The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics, 1789-1989

2006 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
G. John Ikenberry ◽  
Mark L. Haas
Keyword(s):  
Great Power ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Great Power Politics

The State of City Diplomacy

Urbanisation ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 245574712091318
Author(s):  
Ian Klaus
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Collective Voice ◽  
Great Power Politics

Cities have organised into a global collective voice. Doing so has required diplomatic maturation and resulted in new diplomatic standing. Both these developments will be tested with the return of great power politics.

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