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Rival Legalities: International Laws of the Cold War

Edited by Matthew Craven · Sundhya Pahuja · Gerry Simpson
Coming Soon Cambridge University Press Available October 2026

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ISBN-13
9781108810197
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
October 2026
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book offers a wholly new way of thinking about the ideas, struggles and practices that constituted the “historical” Cold War. It challenges dominant myths about the history of the Cold War, arguing that far from being consumed by their ideological rivalry, the US and the Soviet Union were engaged in a conjoint project of world ordering. This idea of a unified Amero-Soviet project brings into view the many ways in which the Cold War was continuous with the imperialisms it displaced. Against this unity though, a rich plurality of law and legal forms emerged, and practices of South-South and South-North solidarity were forged which have since been obscured. The book makes visible the patterns drawn by the aftermath of this 'Cold War' legal order and seeks to both recuperate the imaginative resources that were made available at the time, and provide a corrective to contemporary prognostications that the 'rule-based order' may be nearing its end.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. A (Dis)United nations, a hesitant inauguration
3. The Amero-soviet cold war
4. Practices of diplomacy or international law and being neutral
5. International legal experimentalism: anti-anti colonialism and third world legalities
6. Disrupting the cold war: revolutionary internationalism in the global south
7. Secrets and spies: espionage, surveillance and the covert cold war
8. Nuclearism: globalising the cold war
9. Fallout: redescription, periodisation and aftermath
Acknowledgements
A note on the cover image
Bibliography
Index
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