Therefore, the seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and de‹ciency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself the enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency. (Ibn al-Haytham)1

국제정치이론 = Theory of international politics

The reconfigured eye: Visual truth in the post-photographic era

Postmodernism and Popular Culture

Realism with a Human Face

1. Introduction 2. Inaugurating a new rationality 3. From decolonisation to developmental nation state 4. From permanent sovereignty to investor protection 5. From the rule of international law to the internationalisation of the rule of law 6. Conclusion.

Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality

This chapter begins by helping the reader to grasp the comprehensive nature of Nathaniel Berman's work, and the subtle perspective that he brings to the legal world when it is confronted by the passions to which nationalism and colonialism give rise. In his work, cultural Modernism interacts with the international law of Danzig; the fantasies surrounding Jerusalem with the concrete political and legal projects for that city; internationalist dreams with the institutional programs for Bosnia and Palestine; and the most industrious international bureaucracy with the most creative and audacious legal imagination. Berman makes use of all of the notions in the course of his work on "imperial ambivalences". His goal is to show that we cannot interpret the international law of the interwar period without understanding it as a site of Modernist cultural construction and contestation - rather than as a mere adjunct to, or reflection of, cultural developments external to it. Keywords:colonialism; cultural Modernism; imperial ambivalences; international law; Nathaniel Berman; nationalism

A Critical Introduction

This article examines one of the central recurrent questions in international law: the rela- tion between the universalism of certain of its principles and the possibility that they are imperialist in nature. The author illustrates how, in this regard, international law has, from its very origins, been the bearer of a paradox; a paradox that is, moreover, constitutive of the discipline, and from which international law cannot escape without itself ceasing to exist as such.

Universalism and Imperialism: The True-False Paradox of International Law?

Introduction Part I. The Modern Law of Nations: 1. The law of nations of the Moderns: a new discipline 2. The liberal purpose of the modern law of nations: liberty, equality and security for states 3. State interests and self-esteem 4. The modern law of nations between free-enterprise and protectionism 5. The welfarist purpose of the modern law of nations: the happiness of the people and the advancement of states 6. Cooperation and assistance to states between liberalism and welfarism 7. The liberal-welfarist law of nations: a code of good conduct to discipline European states 8. Goodness, freedom and justice Conclusion Part II. Classical International Law: 9. A modern commentator turned classical: the Vattelian moment 10. The triumph of the liberal purpose of international law 11. Liberal international law outflanked. A welfarist purpose for the rest of the world 12. Intellectual and political explanations and justifications for the change 13. Classical international law in the age of free-enterprise: between free-trade and protectionism 14. Liberal vision, dogmatic foundation and the appeal of liberalism 15. Concerns about social and economic inequality. The emergence of a new welfarist purpose 16. The emergence of concerns for human rights Conclusion Part III. Contemporary International Law: 17. Continuities and discontinuities of the classical model 18. The two liberal purposes of contemporary international law 19. The dilemmas of the new liberal purpose (I): democracy, human rights and the rule of law 20. The dilemmas of the new liberal purpose (II): humanitarian interventions, identities and cultures 21. The status report and general prospects for the new liberal and democratic purpose 22. The economic liberalism of contemporary international law: between Keynesian objectives and the triumph of free trade 23. The general advancement of the welfarist purpose: characteristics and difficulties 24. The specific advancement of the welfarist purpose: Third World(s) and development Conclusion.

The Liberal-Welfarist Law of Nations: A History of International Law

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Emmanuelle Jouannet

Papers

A Critical Introduction

Universalism and Imperialism: The True-False Paradox of International Law?

The Liberal-Welfarist Law of Nations: A History of International Law

French and American Perspectives on International Law: Legal Cultures and International Law

The journal of the history of international law: a forum for new research