International Law and the Political

International Law and the Political

Hilma af Klint, “Buddha’s Standpoint in the Earthly Life”, Nr. 3a, 1920. Public domain via Wikimedia. Edited by Christian Pogies.

What is ‘political’ about international law? This interview series features younger as well as established scholars, focusing on the discussion of new publications on the theory and history of international law as it relates to the political.

International Law and the Political

The Private is Political

Between War and Peace – On the Logic and Language of Imperial Violence. An Interview with Lauren Benton

Towards Realistic Universalism?, or: Provincializing Realism! An Interview with Matthew Specter

Global Histories of International Law’s Practice in Wartime

Ordering the Power to Protect and Destroy Civilian Lives

On Struggle and Contextualised History

Against the Historiographical Hierarchization of Human Rights

Fetishizing the State: Gentili and the Myth of the Modern Laws of War

Beyond Black and White: Normative Ambiguities and the Delivery of Cluster Bombs

Relapse into ‘Civilisation’?! A Narrative’s Continuity and Change

(Merging the) Fragments of Critical International Law

Can We Trust Each Other?

International Law and Class Dynamics

Revolutions Are Not Made by Laws

On History, Responsibility and Critique

Turning to History – A Political Project?

Sentiment without Sentimentality

(Writing) International Legal Histories – Continuation of Politics by Other Means?

Völkerrechtsgeschichte (schreiben) – Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln?

International Law and the Political: Setting the Scene