The Liberal-Welfarist Law of Nations: A History of International Law

Emmanuelle Jouannet; Christopher Sutcliffe

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139093583

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Emmanuelle Jouannet, Université de Paris I
Translated by Christopher Sutcliffe

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: March 2012
Print publication year:: 2012
Online ISBN:: 9781139093583
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139093583

Subjects:: Public International Law, Law, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations

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Although portrayed as a liberal law of co-existence of and co-operation between states, international law has always been a welfarist law, too. Emerging in eighteenth-century Europe, it soon won favour globally. Not only did it minister to the interests of states and their concern for stability, but it was also an interventionist law designed to ensure the happiness and well-being of peoples. Hence international law initially served as a secularised eschatological model, replacing the role of religion in ensuring the proper ordering of mankind, which was held to be both one and divided. That initial vision still drives our post-Cold War globalised world. Contemporary international law is neither a strictly welfarist law nor a strictly liberal law, but is in fact a liberal-welfarist law. In the conjunction of these two purposes lies one of the keys to its meaning and a partial explanation for its continuing ambivalence.

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