Monday, December 30, 2019

Craven, Pahuja, & Simpson: International Law and the Cold War

Matthew Craven (School of Oriental and African Studies, Univ. of London - Law), Sundhya Pahuja (Univ. of Melbourne - Law), & Gerry Simpson (London School of Economics and Political Science - Law) have published International Law and the Cold War (Cambridge Univ. Press 2020). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:
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.