When studying international law there is often a risk of focusing entirely on the content of international rules (i.e. regimes), and ignoring why these regimes exist and to what extent the rules affect state behavior. Similarly, international relations studies can focus so much on theories based on the distribution of power among states that it overlooks the existence and relevance of the rules of international law. Both approaches hold their dangers. The overlooking of international relat...

Folkmord är ett av de mest laddade begreppen i vår samtid. Det är en juridisk term, men medför även moraliska imperativ och kan utgöra ett politiskt vapen. I internationella medier, FN:s olika forum och svensk debatt används ordet med en tyngd som både förpliktigar och splittrar.Denna bok lyfter fram berättelser, perspektiv och juridiska strider som på olika sätt knyter an till Sverige – men som ännu inte fullt ut återgivits i historieskrivningen. Hur förarbetet till FN:s folkmords...

In the last decade, there has been a turn to history in international humanitarian law and its accompanying fields. To examine this historization and to expand the current scope of scholarship, this book brings together scholars from various fields, including law, history, sociology, and international relations. Human rights law, international criminal law, and the law on the use of force are all explored across the text’s four main themes: historiographies of selected fields of internatio...

This open access book examines international law from a critical perspective, at a time when some would say that it is under an existential threat. The modern international institutions — collective security through the UN, the monetary order of the Bretton Woods system, and trade liberalisation anchored in the World Trade Organization — are all contested. Several of the contributions explore whether international lawyers might want to consider positioning themselves in opposition to this ...