Great powers and outlaw states

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Abbreviations......Page 20
Part I Introduction......Page 23
1 Great Powers and outlaw states......Page 25
Part II Concepts......Page 45
Introduction......Page 47
Orthodoxies......Page 48
Historical and philosophical roots......Page 52
Reconceptualising sovereign equality......Page 59
Formal equality......Page 64
Legislative equality......Page 70
Existential equality......Page 75
Tolerated inequalities......Page 78
Introduction......Page 84
Hierarchy and anarchy......Page 85
Legalised hegemony: the Great Powers in concert......Page 89
Liberal anti-pluralism......Page 98
Other hierarchies......Page 105
Conclusion......Page 108
Part III Histories: Great Powers......Page 111
Introduction......Page 113
The Congress of Vienna and the inception of legalised hegemony......Page 115
The Congress of Vienna: a brief account......Page 118
Legalised hegemony......Page 124
Sovereign equality in the service of legalised hegemony......Page 130
Other hierarchies......Page 132
Conclusion......Page 134
International legal scholarship: fidelity, repudiation and equivocation......Page 137
Fidelity......Page 138
Repudiation......Page 143
Equivocation......Page 146
Towards the Hague Peace Conferences......Page 148
Introduction......Page 154
Rui Barbosa and James Brown Scott......Page 158
Hegemony revived......Page 169
Versailles......Page 176
From Vienna to Versailles: some preliminary conclusions......Page 182
Introduction......Page 187
At the Fairmont Hotel......Page 189
The push for hegemony......Page 190
The pull of equality......Page 197
At San Francisco......Page 201
Attenuating the veto......Page 202
Modifying the membership......Page 204
Constraining the Council......Page 206
Enhancing the Assembly......Page 210
Equality and hegemony revisited......Page 214
Introduction......Page 216
Two theses about the Nato action in Kosovo......Page 221
The Verona thesis......Page 223
The Vienna thesis......Page 236
Conclusion......Page 244
Part IV Histories: Outlaw States......Page 247
Introduction......Page 249
International society: two conceptions......Page 251
Introduction......Page 254
The publicists of anti-pluralism......Page 257
Practices of anti-pluralism: capitulations and unequal treaties......Page 265
The practices of anti-pluralism: intervention and the Holy Alliance......Page 269
Introduction......Page 276
The turn of the century......Page 278
Versailles......Page 282
San Francisco......Page 285
Introduction: the shift to anti-pluralism......Page 300
Criminal states......Page 306
The democratic governance regime......Page 321
Conclusion: a bifurcated legal order......Page 333
Part V Conclusion......Page 339
Introduction: juridical sovereignty and the war in Afghanistan......Page 341
Hegemons......Page 344
Outlaws......Page 347
Unequal sovereigns I: legalised hegemony modified......Page 348
Lawful violence: pragmatists......Page 349
Unlawful violence......Page 353
Legalised hegemony revisited......Page 356
Unequal sovereigns in the Afghanistan war: out of law......Page 361
Conclusion......Page 370
12 The puzzle of sovereignty......Page 374
Select bibliography......Page 376
Index......Page 394