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Author Abbenhuis, Maartje

Title War, Peace and International Order? : the Legacies of the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Modern History
Routledge studies in modern history.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Introduction: Unbridled promise? The Hague's peaceconferences and their legacies; Notes; Chapter 1 Justifying international action: International law, The Hague anddiplomacy before 1914; Notes; Chapter 2 Peace through law: The Hague Peace Conferences and the rise of the ius contra bellum; The 'peace through law' movement, arbitration and the ius ad bellum tradition; The 1899 Hague Peace Conference ; The 1907 Hague Peace Conference ; Conclusion; Notes
Chapter 3 Muddied waters: The influence of the first Hagueconference on the evolution of the Geneva Conventions of 1864 and 1906The maritime convention; Revising the Geneva Convention ; The Hague Conference, 1899; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4 Reconsidering disarmament at the Hague Peace Conference of 1899, and after; Notes; Chapter 5 More than just a taboo: The legacy of the chemical warfareprohibitions of the 1899 and 1907Hague Conferences; Defining poison gas ; Outlawing chemical warfare at The Hague; The First World War ; The interwar period and the Second World War; Post-war and beyond
NotesChapter 6 Sub silentio: The sexual assault of womenin international law; The distinction between humans and persons in international law; Final thoughts: attention and the letter of the law; Notes; Chapter 7 The duel of honour and the origins of the rules for arms, warfare and arbitration in the Hague conferences; The development of duelling jurisprudence from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries; Duelling protocols, honour and the internationalisation of honour at The Hague; Notes
Chapter 8 Writing for peace: Reconsidering the British public peacepetitioning movement's historical legaciesafter 1898Notes; Chapter 9 The Hague as a framework for British and American newspapers' public presentations of the First World War; Notes; Chapter 10 Norway's legalistic approach to peace in the aftermath of the First World War; The Scandinavian proposal for an international judicial organisation; Drafting the Permanent Court of International Justice's statute; The establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice; Conclusion; Notes
Chapter 11 Against the Hague Conventions: Promoting new rules for neutralityin the Cold WarThe communist 're-discovery' of neutrality ; Attempts at reshaping neutrality in the Cold War era; New rules for neutrals; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 12 The neutrals and Spanish neutrality: A legal approach to international peacein constitutional texts; A commitment to peace; (Re)defining neutrality in a system of collective security in the League of Nations era; The law of war in an age of democracy; Conclusions; Notes; Index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT International Peace Conference -- Influence
International Peace Conference fast
Subject War -- History -- 20th century
Pacific settlement of international disputes -- History -- 20th century
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Pacific settlement of international disputes
War
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Barber, Christopher Ernest
Higgins, Annalise R
ISBN 9781315447797
1315447797