Contents

Acknowledgments page vii

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction: History, Politics, Law: Thinking through

the International i

Annabel Brett, Megan Donaldson and Martti Koskenniemi

PART I: METHODS, APPROACHES AND ENCOUNTERS 17

1 Between History, Politics and Law: History of Political

Thought and History of International Law 19

Annabel Brett

2 The Past according to International Law: A Practice

of History and Histories of a Practice 49

Martti Koskenniemi

3 The Context for Context: International Legal History

in Struggle 69

David Kennedy

4 After Method: International Law and the Problems of History 96 Gerry Simpson

PART II: THINKING THROUGH THE INTERNATIONAL 127

LAW AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE POLITICAL 129

5 Carl Schmitt's International Thought and the State 131

Armin von Bogdandy and Adeel Hussain

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6 Carl Schmitt on the Theory and Practice of Occupation

and Dictatorship 160

Joshua Smeltzer and Duncan Kelly

EMPIRES, STATES AND NATIONS 189

7 Law of Nations, World of Empires: The Politics of Law's

Conceptual Frames 191

Jennifer Pitts

8 The History of Political Thought in the African

Political Present 208

Emma Hunter

INSTITUTIONS AND PERSONS 229

9 The [In]hospitable World 231

Julia McClure

10 Ventriloquism in Geneva: The League of Nations as

International Organisation 253

Megan Donaldson

ECONOMICS AND INNOVATION 283

11 Sea Change 285

Surabhi Ranganathan

12 The Political Economy of Context: Theories of Economic

Development and the Study of Conceptual Change 309

Joel Isaac

GENDER 339

13 Gender in the State of Nature 341

Anna Becker

14 Gender and the Lost Private Side of International Law 357

Karen Knop

Index 381