[Séminaire ESPOL-LAB] Book launch : “Rewriting Histories of the Use of Force.”

Book launch: “Rewriting Histories of the Use of Force.” Cambridge University Press 2021 – par Agatha VERDEBOUT,  18 novembre 2021 (14h00-16h00, sur site)

ESPOL-Lab aura le plaisir d’écouter ce jeudi 18 novembre Agatha Verdebout de 14h à 16h pour un séminaire général (en anglais) autour de la sortie de son livre “Rewriting Histories of the Use of Force.” Cambridge University Press 2021. Ce séminaire est organisé en présentiel uniquement (à l’Université Catholique de Lille, Campus St Raphaël, 83 Boulevard Vauban à Lille, bâtiment I – salle I 104) et ne sera pas enregistré / diffusé. Le passe sanitaire est nécessaire pour accéder à cet événement.

Résumé : It is commonly taught that the prohibition of the use of force is an achievement of the twentieth century and that beforehand States were free to resort to the arms as they pleased. International law, the story goes, was ‘indifferent’ to the use of force. ‘Reality’ as it stems from historical sources, however, appears much more complex. Using tools of history, sociology, anthropology and social psychology, this monograph offers new insights into the history of the prohibition of the use of force in international law. Conducting in-depth analysis of nineteenth century doctrine and State practice, it paves the way for an alternative narrative on the prohibition of force, and seeks to understand the origins of international law’s traditional account. In so doing, it also provides a more general reflection on how the discipline writes, rewrites and chooses to remember its own history.  

Agatha Verdebout is Associate Professor of Public International Law at ESPOL, Université Catholique de Lille, and Associate Member of the Centre de droit international of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

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