| Physical description |
xxxvi, 239 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
The history and theory of international law. |
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History and theory of international law.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-227) and index. |
| Contents |
1 Toward a Pan-American Legal Order: The Rise of US Hemispheric Hegemony and Elihu Root's Visit to South America 1 -- 1 From US Interventionism to Pan-Americanism 4 -- 2 Rise of International Law in the United States: Root and the American Peace Movement 15 -- 3 Root's Encounter with South America 19 -- 2 Forging and Consolidating a Hemispheric Legal Network: The Creation of the American Institute of International Law and the Encounter between James Brown Scott and Alejandro Alvarez 31 -- 1 Creation of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the American Institute of International Law 34 -- 2 Resonances of Root's Approach: Bacon's Tour of South America 41 -- 3 Institutionalization of the American Institute of International Law and Its First Two Meetings 47 -- 3 Pan-American Redefinition of the Monroe Doctrine and the Emerging Language of American International Law 59 -- 1 Monroe Doctrine, Pan-Americanism, and the ABC Countries 63 -- 2 Contending Conceptions of Intervention: Luis Maria Drago and Theodore Roosevelt 69 -- 3 Toward a Pan-American Monroe Doctrine: Alejandio Alvarez, Elihu Root, Baltasar Brum, and Charles Evans Hughes 74 -- 4 International Organization and Hegemony: The Codification of American International Law and the Tensions between James Brown Scott and Alejandro Alvarez 87 -- 1 New Quest for International Organization in the Americas after the First World War and the Initial Projects Advanced by Alejandro Alvarez for Codification 91 -- 2 Combating Anti-Yankee Ideology: The Reorganization of the American Institute of International Law and the Consolidation of US Strategic Alliances in Cuba 98 -- 3 Contending Approaches to Codification at the Rio de Janeiro Commission: Between US-led Pragmatic Elitism and Pan-American Idealistic Multilateralism 106 -- 5 Debate over Intervention at Havana and the Crisis of the American Institute of International Law: James Brown Scott's Displacement of Alejandro Alvarez 119 -- 1 International Law and Real Politics: From Codification to the Debate over Intervention 121 -- 2 International Legal Optimism in Times of Crisis: US Utopian Plans for a Civilizing Center of American International Law in Cuba and the Final Displacement of Alejandro Alvarez 131 -- 3 Decline of the American Institute of International Law and the Rise of Inter-American Multilateralism: The Anti-War Treaty of Saavedra Lamas 137 -- 6 From Pan-Americanism to Multilateral Inter-Americanism: The Impact of the Anti-War Treaty, the Principle of Nonintervention, and Sovereign Equality at Montevideo, and the Dissolution of the American Institute of International Law 147 -- 1 Anti-War Treaty, the Codification of American International Law, and the Principles of Nonintervention and State Independence and Autonomy at Montevideo (1933) 150 -- 2 Redefining Pan-Americanism and Rejecting the Monroe Doctrine: From US-led Pan-Americanism to the Institutionalization of Inter-American Multilateralism and Sovereign Equality 160 -- 3 Last Years of Life of the American Institute of International Law and the Decline of Pan-Americanism 168. |
| Subject |
American Institute of International Law -- History.
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International law -- America -- History.
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International law -- United States -- History.
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Law -- America -- Foreign influences.
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History. |
| ISBN |
9780190622343 |
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0190622342 |
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