From the Congress of Vienna to the "war on terrorism", the roles of "great powers and outlaw states" have had a major impact on international relations. Gerry Simpson describes the ways in which an international legal order based on "sovereign equality" has accommodated the great powers and regulated outlaw states since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Simpson also offers a way of understanding recent transformations in the global political order by recalling the lessons of the past--in particular, through the recent violent conflicts in Kosovo and Afghanistan.
Author(s): Gerry Simpson
Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 416
0521827612......Page 1
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 17
List of abbreviations......Page 19
Part I Introduction......Page 22
1 Great Powers and outlaw states......Page 24
Part II Concepts......Page 44
2 Sovereign equalities......Page 46
3 Legalised hierarchies......Page 83
Part III Histories: Great Powers......Page 110
4 Legalised hegemony: from Congress to Conference
1815--1906......Page 112
5 ‘Extreme equality’: Rupture at the Second Hague
Peace Conference 1907......Page 153
6 The Great Powers, sovereign equality and the making
of the United Nations Charter: San Francisco 1945......Page 186
7 Holy Alliances: Verona 1822 and Kosovo 1999......Page 215
Part IV Histories: Outlaw States......Page 246
8 Unequal sovereigns: 1815--1839......Page 248
9 Peace-loving nations: 1945......Page 275
10 Outlaw states: 1999......Page 299
Part V Conclusion......Page 338
11 Arguing about Afghanistan: Great Powers and outlaw
states redux......Page 340
12 The puzzle of sovereignty......Page 373
Select bibliography......Page 375
Index......Page 393
