Boundaries of Discourse in the International Court of Justice : Mapping Arguments in Arab Territorial Disputes

Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
Table of Cases......Page 18
Table of Treaties......Page 22
Acknowledgments......Page 26
Copyright Permissions and Acknowledgments......Page 28
Abbreviations......Page 30
Note on Arabic Transliteration......Page 32
The Postcolonial Paradox......Page 34
Scope of the Study......Page 36
Central Research Questions......Page 37
Why Arab?......Page 38
Case Selection......Page 41
Book Structure......Page 42
Introduction......Page 48
Problematising Postcolonial Participation: Can We Now Speak of a ‘World Court’?......Page 50
NAIL and TWAIL on the Politics of Law and the Possibility of Universalism......Page 60
Speaking in Tongues: International Law as Language......Page 67
Interrogating Conventions within Mainstream ICJ Literatures......Page 73
Conclusion: Law as Argument and Contestation about the Quest for Universalism......Page 85
Introduction......Page 88
How Should International Lawyers Study Islamic Law and its Contribution to International Law?......Page 89
In the Wake of the Prophet’s Message: Conquests, Caliphs and the Development of Islamic International Law......Page 97
Caliphs, Capitulations and Colonialism in Ottoman Lands......Page 103
From the Mandate Period to the Present: Independence, the Failure of Regionalism and the Place of Adjudication......Page 117
Conclusion......Page 126
Introduction to Part II......Page 130
Introduction......Page 148
Corsairs, Camels and Caliphs: Historical and Geographical Background......Page 150
Th e Need for Certainty and Simplicity: The ICJ on Treaty Interpretation and the Finality of Borders......Page 155
Listening to the Court’s Silences: The Pleadings of Libya and Chad......Page 164
An Historical Afterthought: Th e Implications of the Colonial Legacy in a ‘Postcolonial’ World......Page 176
Conclusion......Page 177
Introduction......Page 180
Background to the Dispute......Page 184
The Jurisdictional Stage of the Case......Page 187
The Court’s Determination on the Merits......Page 191
Competing Narratives on Statehood and Colonialism in the Gulf......Page 193
Conclusion......Page 212
Introduction to Part III......Page 218
Introduction......Page 224
Confusion over the Fate of Western Sahara and the Request for an Advisory Opinion......Page 227
Playing with the Rules: Strategies of Argument before the Court......Page 238
Constituting Selfhood before the Court: Legal Personality, Identity Politics and the Multicultural Limits of International Law......Page 248
Conclusion......Page 258
Postscript......Page 260
Introduction......Page 262
Background to the Opinion......Page 263
The Decision of the Court......Page 269
Contesting the Court’s Jurisdiction......Page 277
Strategies of Argument......Page 281
The Promise of Doctrine?......Page 288
Conclusion......Page 294
Conclusion......Page 298
Glossary......Page 304
Bibliography......Page 308
Index......Page 334