Book

International law and the Cold War

ed. by Matthew Craven, Sundhya Pahuja, Gerry Simpson, with Anna Saunders

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020

XIII, 599 p. ; 23 cm

978-1-108-49918-7

English

Index.

International Law and the Cold War is the first book dedicated to examining the relationship between the Cold War and International Law. The authors adopt a variety of creative approaches - in relation to events and fields such as nuclear war, environmental protection, the Suez crisis and the Lumumba assassination - in order to demonstrate the many ways in which international law acted upon the Cold War and in turn show how contemporary international law is an inheritance of the Cold War. Their innovative research traces the connections between the Cold War and contemporary legal constructions of the nation-state, the environment, the third world, and the refugee; and between law, technology, science, history, literature, art, and politics.

• 2020, Chapter, The Cold War history of the Landmines Convention / Treasa Dunworth
• 2020, Chapter, Accounting for the ENMOD Convention : Cold War influences on the origins and development of the 1976 Convention on environmental modification techniques / by Emily Crawford