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On Struggle and Contextualised History
13.02.2024
Steven L.B. Jensen
Hendrik Simon
While we talked about new histories of social rights in Part I of our interview, the second part of the interview with Steven Jensen is about political history and the...
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Against the Historiographical Hierarchization of Human Rights
12.02.2024
Steven L.B. Jensen
Hendrik Simon
Social and economic rights have often been considered part of so-called ‘second-generation rights’ – falsely, as Steven L. B. Jensen argues. Instead, he calls for a new historiography of social...
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- ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine
ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine
18.12.2023
Juan Pablo Scarfi
Hendrik Simon
With this post we start our new, open-ended symposium entitled ‘ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine’. On the 2nd December 1823, U.S. President James Monroe delivered his famous...
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Fetishizing the State: Gentili and the Myth of the Modern Laws of War
21.11.2023
Claire Vergerio
Hendrik Simon
According to international humanitarian law, the answer to the question of who is considered a legitimate actor of force is primarily the following: sovereign states. This state-centred answer is often...
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Beyond Black and White: Normative Ambiguities and the Delivery of Cluster Bombs
12.07.2023
Elvira Rosert
Frank Sauer
Hendrik Simon
Following the decision by the United States of America to provide cluster bombs to Ukraine, a contentious public and academic discourse has emerged, centering on the legality and legitimacy of...
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Relapse into ‘Civilisation’?! A Narrative’s Continuity and Change
01.02.2023
Ntina Tzouvala
Hendrik Simon
Critical International Law has become increasingly influential in academic discourse. However, argues Ntina Tzouvala, there remain important blind spots. An interview on capitalism, racism, and the ongoing impact of ‘civilisation’....
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(Merging the) Fragments of Critical International Law
31.01.2023
Ntina Tzouvala
Hendrik Simon
Critical International Law has become increasingly influential in academic discourse. However, argues Ntina Tzouvala, there remain important blind spots. An interview on capitalism, racism, and the ongoing impact of ‘civilisation’....
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Can We Trust Each Other?
15.11.2022
Filipe dos Reis
Hendrik Simon
Interdisciplinarity still seems to be the order of the day. Despite its many advantages, it tends to be a sometimes-ambivalent undertaking: demanded in academia’s bureaucracies (for funding applications, no less),...
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International Law and Class Dynamics
10.06.2022
In the face of massive crises and revealed ambiguities of the liberal international order, Marxist thought has experienced a significant revival in recent years—also in (international) legal thought. But what...
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Revolutions Are Not Made by Laws
09.06.2022
In the face of massive crises and revealed ambiguities of the liberal international order, Marxist thought has experienced a significant revival in recent years—also in (international) legal thought. But what...
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On History, Responsibility and Critique
25.05.2022
Anne Orford
Sué González Hauck
Hendrik Simon
While in the first part of our conversation with Anne Orford we talked about the politics of "turning to history" in international legal scholarship, the second part is about possible...
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Turning to History – A Political Project?
24.05.2022
Anne Orford
Sué González Hauck
Hendrik Simon
In the last 30 years, a considerable part of international legal scholarship has discovered a renewed interest in the history of international law. But is this 'turn to history' perhaps...
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- To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
Returning ‘To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth’
20.05.2022
Martti Koskenniemi
Ankit Malhotra
Christian Pogies
Hendrik Simon
Following the Völkerrechtsblog symposium on Martti Koskenniemi’s new book, our editorial board members Christian Pogies and Hendrik Simon were invited by Ankit Malhotra of the Jindal Society of International Law...
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Sentiment without Sentimentality
08.04.2022
Gerry Simpson
Hendrik Simon
In his new book, Gerry Simpson engages with the ‘Sentimental Life of International Law’ (OUP 2021). But what does ‘sentiment’ – without sentimentality, as the author points out – mean...
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Aggression and the ‘Civilizational Turn’ in Russian Politics of International Law
25.02.2022
Lauri Mälksoo
Hendrik Simon
When waking up on 24 February, a glance at the news made it clear that our worst fears have been realized: Russia is waging an aggressive war against Ukraine. On...
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(Writing) International Legal Histories – Continuation of Politics by Other Means?
17.09.2021
Anne Peters
Raphael Schäfer
Hendrik Simon
Dear Professor Peters, dear Mr. Schäfer – to begin with the genesis of your anthology Politics and the Histories of International Law: How did this publication project come about? Where...
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Völkerrechtsgeschichte (schreiben) – Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln?
17.09.2021
Anne Peters
Raphael Schäfer
Hendrik Simon
Liebe Frau Professorin Peters, lieber Herr Schäfer - um mit der Entstehungsgeschichte Ihres Sammelbandes „Politics and the Histories of International Law“ zu beginnen: Wie kam es zu diesem Publikationsprojekt? Wo würden Sie...
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International Law and the Political: Setting the Scene
17.09.2021
With this blogpost we start our new interview series ‘International Law and the Political’. Regardless of one’s school of thought, it can hardly be contested today that international law is...
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Legal Imagination as Bricolage
23.08.2021
Christian Pogies
Hendrik Simon
The publication of Martti Koskenniemi’s new book marks a much-anticipated event among scholars working on the Theory and History of International Law. This may come as little surprise, given that...
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- The Justification of War and International Order
Discourses of Power and Normativity
04.06.2021
Lothar Brock
Hendrik Simon
We would like to thank the contributors as well as the editorial team at Völkerrechtsblog, and particularly Sué González Hauck, for putting together this thought-provoking symposium on “The Justification of...
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Governing the world through information (law)
09.04.2020
Knowledge is power – power is knowledge. While this nexus certainly is a commonplace in the critical sociology of knowledge, it may actually never have been more topical than today....
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