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07 April 2025

BOOK: Maike KRÜGER, Security Discourses. Juridification of international relations in the 19th and early 20th century [Schriften zum Völkerrecht; 264] (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2025), 277 p., ISBN: 978-3-428-19268-7

 Cover: Security Discourses

About the book:

Die Arbeit analysiert die zwischenstaatlichen Verrechtlichungsprozesse des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Nach einem historischen Überblick werden drei zentrale Themenkomplexe untersucht: Verrechtlichung als Reaktion auf kollektive Sicherheitswahrnehmungen, Verrechtlichung als Voraussetzung für Institutionalisierung und Verrechtlichung als diskursiver Prozess. Die Analyse stützt sich auf die politikwissenschaftliche Theorie der »Securitization«, welche die diskursive Darstellung sicherheitsrelevanter Sachverhalte beschreibt. Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass das Völkerrecht einem dynamischen Wandel unterliegt, der die Komplexität internationaler Beziehungen und Diversität nationaler Interessen widerspiegelt. Dennoch bieten rechtliche Strukturen Stabilität: Sie schaffen einen Rahmen, der es Staaten ermöglicht, Konflikte friedlich zu lösen und Herausforderungen gemeinsam zu bewältigen.

Table of contents:

Introduction
Securitization – Juridification – Infrastructures – Conclusion

A. Justifying Interstate Violence – A Brief History
Bellum Justum: War as Divine Justice – Bellum Legale: Sovereignty and Procedural Law – Conclusion: From Just to Legal Wars

B. Juridification as a Reaction to Collective Perceptions of Security
The Rise of Collective Security – Arbitration: Response to Forceful Self-help – Conclusion: Co-ordination and Co-operation – A Growing Need

C. Juridification as a Necessary Requirement for Institutionalization
The Sovereignty of States and International Law – The Century of Conferences and Congresses – The League of Nations: Institutionalization of the Maintenance of Peace? – Conclusion: Consensus – The Need to Understand Each Other

D. Successful Juridification as a Discursive Process
War and Measures Short of War – Arbitration: Questions of Law or Questions of Politics – Administrative Unions: Unpolitical Multilateralism? – The League of Nations: The Political Relations Between States – Conclusion: The Power of Narratives

E. Legal Infrastructures – Co-Ordination of International Relations
Multitude of Inter-state Relations – Legal Infrastructures – Conclusion: Normative Networks

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07 October 2021

BOOK : Alexis DEPRAU, Le droit face à la terreur, (Les éditions du Cerf, Paris, 2021), ISBN : 9782204138482, pp.384, 24,00€

 


A propos de l'ouvrage : 


Comment ne pas perdre son âme face au terrorisme ? Les lois et les pratiques des démocraties face à l’horreur respectent-elles l’État de droit ?

Antidote à la terreur première, celle de l’ignorance et du doute face à cet ennemi tant imprévisible que redoutable, cette étude approfondie, nourrie des rapports parlementaires et de la jurisprudence, vient répondre aux questions légitimes du citoyen confronté à la violence terroriste qui endeuille la France depuis 2012 et aux moyens de sa lutte.

Comment la France agit-elle pour prévenir l’attaque terroriste ? Comment les acteurs du renseignement ont-ils évolué pour prendre en compte les menaces nouvelles ? Où sont l’efficacité et la limite ? À la croisée des sciences politiques et du droit, Alexis Deprau livre ici une retranscription fidèle de ce que revêt l’aspect opérationnel de la lutte contre le terrorisme par nos services spécialisés. Fort de son expertise, cet essai inédit sur l’appareil antiterroriste français ne laisse aucune chance à l’approximatif. Il prodigue toutes les clés pour appréhender la violence aveugle de cette guerre que les fous de Dieu ont déclarée à notre modèle de société et à notre civilisation.

Une enquête décisive qui, pour la première fois, pose de manière accessible toutes ces questions cruciales.

A propos de l'auteur : 


Juriste, spécialiste du droit de la sécurité et de la défense, Docteur de l’université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Alexis Deprau est membre de l’Association française du droit de la sécurité et de la défense. Il est l’auteur de nombreuses contributions dans des revues spécialisées.









22 June 2020

BOOK: Keith EWING, Joan MAHONEY, and Andrew MORETTA, MI5, the Cold War, and the Rule of Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). ISBN 9780198818625, $105.00


(Source: OUP)

Oxford University Press is publishing a new book on the MI5 and the rule of law during the Cold War.

ABOUT THE BOOK

This book explores the powers, activities, and accountability of MI5 from the end of the Second World War to 1964. It argues that MI5 acted with neither statutory authority nor statutory powers, and with no obvious forms of statutory accountability. It was established as a counter-espionage agency, yet was beset by espionage scandals on a frequency that suggested if not high levels of incompetence, then high levels of distraction and the squandering of resources.

The book addresses the evolution of MI5's mandate after the Second World War which set out its role and functions, and to a limited extent the lines of accountability, the surveillance targets of MI5 and the surveillance methods that it used for this purpose, with a focus in two chapters on MPs and lawyers respectively; the purposes for which this information was used, principally to exclude people from certain forms of employment; and the accountability of MI5 or the lack thereof for the way in which it discharged its responsibilities under the mandate.

As lawyers the authors' concern is to consider these questions within the context of the rule of law, one of the core principles of the British constitution, the values of which it was the duty of the Security Service to uphold. Based on extensive archival research, it suggests that MI5 operated without legal authority or exceeded the legal authority it did have.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Keith Ewing, Professor of Public Law, King's College London, Joan Mahoney, University of Southampton, Andrew Moretta, postgraduate research student, University of Liverpool

Keith Ewing is professor of public law at King's College London. He is co-editor of the Oxford Labour Law series and author of numerous books and articles, including Bonfire of the Liberties (OUP 2010) and The Struggle for Civil Liberties (OUP 2001).

Joan Mahoney now teaches at the University of Southampton, having taught for many years in the United States where she was Dean of Wayne State University Law School.

Andrew Moretta is a postgraduate research student at the University of Liverpool. He received his LLM from King's College London in 2012.

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