The hidden history of international law in the Americas : empire and legal networks /

This book 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scarfi, Juan Pablo, 1979- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Series:History and theory of international law.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Hemispheric legal networks and languages in the Americas
  • Toward a Pan-American legal order : the rise of the US hemispheric hegemony and Elihu Root's visit to South America
  • Forging and consolidating a hemispheric legal network : the creation of the American Institute of International Law and the encounter between James Brown Scott and Alejandro Alvarez
  • The Pan-American redefinition of the Monroe Doctrine and the emerging language of American international law
  • International organization and hegemony : the codification of American international law and tensions between James Brown Scott and Alejandro Alvarez
  • The debate over intervention at Havana and the crisis of the American Institute of International law : James Brown Scott's displacement of Alejandro Alvarez
  • From Pan-Americanism to multilateral inter-Americanism : the impact of the Anti-War Treaty, the principle of nonintervention, and sovereign equality at Montevideo, and the dissolution of the American Institute of International Law.