num_pages: 584
description: Koskenniemi traces the emergence of a liberal sensibility relating to international matters in the late 19th century, and its subsequent decline after the Second World War. He combines legal analysis, historical and political critique and semi-biographical studies of key figures, including Hersch Lauterpacht, Carl Schmitt and Hans Morgenthau. Finally, his discussion of legal and political realism at American law schools ends in a critique of post-1960 "instrumentalism". This wide-ranging study provides a unique reflection on the future of critical international law.
language: English
title: The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870–1960
titlecomplete: The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870–1960
genres: Nonfiction, Law, International Relations, History
ratings_count: 33
series: Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures
publisher: Cambridge University Press