(Source: OUP)
Last year,
Oxford University Press published a book on the history of international law in
the Americas and its use for legitimising US hegemony in Latin America.
ABOUT THE BOOK
International
law has played a crucial role in the construction of imperial projects. Yet
within the growing field of studies about the history of international law and
empire, scholars have seldom considered this complicit relationship in the
Americas. The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas offers the
first exploration of the deployment of international law for the legitimization
of U.S. ascendancy as an informal empire in Latin America. This book explores
the intellectual history of a distinctive idea of American international law in
the Americas, focusing principally on the evolution of the American Institute
of International Law (AIIL). This organization was created by U.S. and Chilean
jurists James Brown Scott and Alejandro Alvarez in Washington D.C. for the
construction, development, and codification of international law across the
Americas. Juan Pablo Scarfi examines the debates sparked by the AIIL over
American international law, intervention and non-intervention, Pan-Americanism,
the codification of public and private international law and the nature and
scope of the Monroe Doctrine, as well as the international legal thought of
Scott, Alvarez, and a number of jurists, diplomats, politicians, and
intellectuals from the Americas. Professor Scarfi argues that American
international law, as advanced primarily by the AIIL, was driven by a U.S.-led
imperial aspiration of civilizing Latin America through the promotion of the
international rule of law. By providing a convincing critical account of the
legal and historical foundations of the Inter-American System, this book will
stimulate debate among international lawyers, IR scholars, political
scientists, and intellectual historians.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Juan Pablo
Scarfi is a Research Associate at the Argentine National Scientific and
Technical Research Council (CONICET), and teaches international relations and
international law at the School of Politics and Government at the National University
of San Martín, Argentina. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge
in 2014. He was a Visiting Scholar at University College London (Institute of
the Americas) and Columbia University, as well as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the
Center for Intellectual History in the National University of Quilmes. He is
the author of El imperio de la ley: James Brown Scott y la construcción de un
orden jurídico interamericano (2014) and co-editor of Cooperation and Hegemony
in US-Latin American Relations: Revisiting the Western Hemisphere Idea (2016).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction:
Hemispheric Legal Networks and Languages in the Americas
Abbreviations
Chapter 1:
Towards a Pan-American Legal Order: The Rise of US Hemispheric Hegemony and
Elihu Root's Visit to South America
Chapter 2: Forging
and Consolidating a Hemispheric Legal Network: The Creation of the American
Institute of International Law and the Encounter between Scott and Alvarez
Chapter 3: The
Pan-American Redefinition of the Monroe Doctrine and the Emerging Language of
American International Law
Chapter 4:
International Organisation and Hegemony: The Codification of American
International Law and the Tensions between Scott and Alvarez
Chapter 5: The
Debate over Intervention at Havana and the Crisis of the American Institute of
International Law: Scott´s Displacement of Alvarez
Chapter 6: From
Pan-Americanism to Multilateral Inter-Americanism: The Impact of the Anti-War
Treaty, the Principle of Non-intervention and Sovereign Equality at Montevideo
and the Dissolution of the American Institute of International Law
Conclusion: From
US Hemispheric to Global Hegemony: Assessing the Legacy of American
International Law and the American Institute of International Law in the
Americas
Appendix A:
Constitution of the American Institute of International Law (1913)
Appendix B:
American Institute of International Law, "Declaration of Rights and Duties
of Nations" (1915)
Appendix C:
Platt Amendment (1901)
Bibliography
Index
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