Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies

Author: Raluca Grosescu; Ned Richardson-Little
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198920175
Published In: December 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The contributions of socialist thinkers and states to the development of international law often go unrecognized. Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies explores how socialist individuals and governments from Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia made vital contributions to international law as it is practiced today, and also brought ideas and initiatives that constituted important disruptive moments in its history.

The socialist world of the 20th century was an ambiguous and fragile construct: there were clear divisions between the Soviet-led Eastern Bloc, which kept one foot in Western Eurocentric traditions, and the positions of the radical Third World, primarily post-colonial Afro-Asian states, which mounted a more fundamental challenge to the international order. Far from a monolith, the socialist world was an intricate and dynamic space, which still had many shared common understandings of global affairs and the meaning of the law within them.

By examining how different state socialist ideologies, legal principles, and realpolitik affected contemporary international law frameworks, this book contests existing linear and Western-dominated histories. It considers these state socialist engagements in conversation with liberal and Western approaches and underlines the divisions that existed between versions of socialism from different regions and across the North-South divide. The legacies of socialist international law are still with us today, as are the consequences of its failure.

With a focus on the Cold War and its aftermath, Socialist International Law features astute commentary on the history and present-day effects of socialist principles applied to international law, provided by an esteemed and diverse group of contributors from around the world.

1:Socialism and International Law: Legacies of Innovation, Contradiction, and Failure

Raluca Grosescu and Ned Richardson-Little

2:A Socialist Legal Universalism? Cold War Struggles Over International Law

Sebastian Gehrig

3:Socialism and Self-Determination: Lenin, International Law, and National Liberation

Brad Simpson

4:Soviet Lawyers and Concepts of Aggression in International Law

Michelle Penn

5:Decentring Marxism: The Poznań School and Socialist International Law in Eastern Europe after 1945

Jakub Szumski

6:How China Came to Embrace International Institutions

Ryan Martínez Mitchell