Great powers and outlaw states : unequal sovereigns in the international legal order / / Gerry Simpson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819265303321
• Autore: Simpson Gerry J.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-107-14729-8; 1-280-54049-4; 0-511-21526-6; 0-511-21705-6; 0-511-21168-6; 0-511-32730-7; 0-511-49418-1; 0-511-21345-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 391 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge studies in international and comparative law
• Disciplina: 341.26
• Soggetti: Equality of states; Great powers; State-sponsored terrorism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 354-371) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Great Powers and outlaw states; 2 Sovereign equalities; 3 Legalised hierarchies; 4 Legalised hegemony: from Congress to Conference 1815-1906; 5 'Extreme equality': Rupture at the Second Hague Peace Conference 1907; 6 The Great Powers, sovereign equality and the making of the United Nations Charter: San Francisco 1945; 7 Holy Alliances: Verona 1822 and Kosovo 1999; 8 Unequal sovereigns: 1815-1939; 9 Peace-loving nations: 1945; 10 Outlaw states: 1999; 11 Arguing about Afghanistan: Great Powers and outlaw states redux; 12 The puzzle of sovereignty; Select bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 languages 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 is traced through a number of moments of institutional transformation in the global order from the Congress of Vienna to the 'war on terrorism'.