Rose Parfitt

TL;DR: Parfitt as discussed by the authors develops a new'modular' legal history to make sense of the paradoxical relationship between sovereign equality and inequality, and exposes the conditional nature of the process through which international law creates and disciplines new states and their subjects.

TL;DR: In this article, Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope is used to focus on the relationship between time and space, as constructed by the delegates at the Bandung Conference.

TL;DR: The authors examines various theoretical arguments about recognition, statehood, or sovereignty, and discusses the elusiveness of the actual place occupied by the State in legal international thought and practice, concluding that statehood is something that appears to be produced through international law following from a need to determine which political communities can rightfully claim to enjoy the prerogatives of sovereignty.

TL;DR: The assumption that Ethiopia's only discursive contribution to the Abyssinia crisis was passively to regurgitate the relevant clauses of the Covenant is profoundly ideological as mentioned in this paper, and this assumption effects a double suppression: erasing Ethiopia's strategic construction of a hybrid, partially Abyssinian international law from the discipline's memory; and concealing from scholarly view the possibility that Ethiopia’s annexation might have resulted from actions that were in accordance with, rather than in violation of, interwar international legal norms regarding sovereignty and the use of force.

TL;DR: The assumption that Ethiopia's only discursive contribution to the Abyssinia crisis was passively to regurgitate the relevant clauses of the Covenant is profoundly ideological as mentioned in this paper, and this assumption effects a double suppression: erasing Ethiopia's strategic construction of a hybrid, partially Abyssinian international law from the discipline's memory; and concealing from scholarly view the possibility that Ethiopian's annexation might have resulted from actions that were in accordance with, rather than in violation of, interwar international legal norms regarding sovereignty and the use of force.