Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal OrderThe presence of Great Powers and outlaw states is a central but under-explored feature of international society. In this book, 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. In doing so, the author offers a fresh understanding of sovereignty which he terms juridical sovereignty to show how international law has managed the interplay of three languages: the languages of Great Power prerogative, the language of outlawry (or anti-pluralism) and the language of sovereign equality. The co-existence and interaction of these three languages is traced through a number of moments of institutional transformation in the global order from the Congress of Vienna to the 'war on terrorism'. |
Contents
Great Powers and outlaw states | 3 |
Concepts | 23 |
Sovereign equalities | 25 |
Legalised hierarchies | 62 |
Histories Great Powers | 89 |
Legalised hegemony from Congress to Conference 18151906 | 91 |
Extreme equality Rupture at the Second Hague Peace Conference 1907 | 132 |
The Great Powers sovereign equality and the making of the United Nations Charter San Francisco 1945 | 165 |
Unequal sovereigns 18151839 | 227 |
Peaceloving nations 1945 | 254 |
Outlaw states 1999 | 278 |
Conclusion | 317 |
Arguing about Afghanistan Great Powers and outlaw states redux | 319 |
The puzzle of sovereignty | 352 |
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