NEWS: New Entry „Cold War International Law” – Oxfordbibliographies

 

(Source: Oxford Bibliographies)

Oxfordbibliographies has a new bibliography for “Cold War International Law” by Martin Clark, Gerry Simpson, Sundhya Pahuja and Matthew Craven.

“Cold War International Law has conventionally been structured around a historiography of hiatus. A “gap” is posited as inhering in international law sometime between 1948 and 1989. In this gap, there is very little international law—or there is an international law of suspension or crisis or deferral. Some of the present editors (Craven, Pahuja, Simpson) are constructing an alternative vision of Cold War international law as law of improvisation, of committed nonalignment, of ideational power, of responsibility, of complicity, of imagination, and of co-constitution. The Cold War needed international law, and the international law we have now is a product of the Cold War. Given all this, compiling a bibliography of Cold War international law raises some difficulties. […]”

The full entry can be found here