This work offers an exploration of the deployment of international law for the legitimization of U.S. ascendancy as an informal empire in Latin America. This text explores the intellectual history of a distinctive idea of American international law in the Americas, focusing prin…
Toward a Pan-American legal order : the rise of the US hemispheric hegemony and Elihu Root's visit to South America -- Forging and consolidating a hemispheric legal network : the creation of the American Institute of International Law and the encounter between James Brown Scott …
Présentation de l'éditeur : "International law has played a crucial role in the construction of imperial projects. Yet within the growing field of studies about the history of international law and empire, scholars have seldom considered this complicit relationship in the Americ…
This book offers the first exploration of the deployment of international law for the legitimization of U.S. ascendancy as an informal empire in Latin America. This book explores the intellectual history of a distinctive idea of American international law in the Americas, focusi…
"What is Pan-Americanism? People have been struggling with that problem for over a century. Pan-Americanism is (and has been) an amalgam of diplomatic, political, economic, and cultural projects under the umbrella of hemispheric cooperation and housed institutionally in the Pan-…