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Week 2 – Just War, Jus Publicum Europaeum and the Colonial Question + Balance of Power and Imperial
Rivalry 8
Hathaway, O. & Shapiro, S. (2017). The internationalists and their plan to outlaw war. New York, NY:
Simon & Schuster. Chapter 1: Hugo the Great 8
Good prize 8
Hugo Grotius, Corporate Lawyer 8
Pirates and Soldiers 8
What war is good for 8
Heemskerck’s Private War 9
Why Rights Can’t Make Rights 9
Downfall 9
Might is Right 10
The Peculiar Effects of War 10
The father of international law 10
Anghie, A. (2006). The evolution of international law: Colonial and postcolonial realities. Third World
Quarterly, 27(5) 739-753 12
The colonial origins of international law 13
Decolonization and the postcolonial State 13
Towards the present: the ‘war on terror’ 14
Conclusion 14
Hathaway, O. & Shapiro, S. (2017). The internationalists and their plan to outlaw war. New York, NY:
Simon & Schuster. Chapter 3: License to Kill 15
The Trial of Plenty Horses 15
Killing in War 15
Miraculous powers 15
The Emperor in Exile 16
Indefinite Detention 16
The Moral Magic of War 16
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War Crimes 17
God with us 17
The Principle of Distinction 17
Reprisals 18
Thou May Kill 18
Hathaway, O. & Shapiro, S. (2017). The internationalists and their plan to outlaw war. New York, NY:
Simon & Schuster. Chapter 4: Citizen Genêt Goes to Washington 19
Assistance Just Short of War 19
Two and Two make Five 20
Rights and Duties of Neutrality 20
Hathaway, O. & Shapiro, S. (2017). The internationalists and their plan to outlaw war. New York, NY:
Simon & Schuster. Coda 1 21
Wesseling, H. (2004). The European colonial empires, 1815-1919. London: Routledge, Chapter 1, pp. 1-
12. 22
The beginning 22
The Seventeenth Century 22
The Eighteenth Century 23
Week 3 – Democracy, League of Nations and Briand-Kellogg Pact + Outlawing War 24
Hathaway, O. & Shapiro, S. (2017). The internationalists and their plan to outlaw war. New York, NY:
Simon & Schuster. Chapter 5: The War to End War 24
How to Enforce the Peace 24
An Unlikely Revolutionary 24
The Legal Status of War 25
A Plan to Outlaw War 25
Outlawry “with teeth” 26
“In Much More Diplomatic Terms” 26
“ - - pacifists” 26
Touché 27
A Plan Takes Shape 27
I Have Forgotten His First Name 27
Herren, M. (2017). ‘International Organizations, 1865–1945’, in The Oxford Handbook of International
Organizations, eds. J. Katz Cogan, I. Hurd, and I. Johnstone. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Section
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“Thoroughgoing Internationalism”: New Actors and New Interactions under the Umbrella of the
League of Nations”, pp. 9-14 28
Hathaway, O. & Shapiro, S. (2017). The internationalists and their plan to outlaw war. New York, NY:
Simon & Schuster. Chapter 7: The Sanctions of Peace 29
Paralysis 29
The “Sanctions of Peace” 29
The Stimson Doctrine 29
The Changing law of Neutrality 30
Collision of the Old and New World Orders 30
Brink of an Abyss 30
Roosevelt’s Quarantine 30
Embracing the New Neutrality 31
No Other Recourse 31
Hathaway, O. & Shapiro, S. (2017). The internationalists and their plan to outlaw war. New York, NY:
Simon & Schuster. Chapter 16: Outcasting 32
The First New Society 32
Outcasting 32
The Power of Outcasting 33
The Limits of Outcasting 33
Smart Outcasting 33
My Hairspray’s a Killer 34
Even Smarter Outcasting- and its limits 34
Unfinished Business 34
The Alternative to War 35
Week 4 – The Failure of the League of Nations and World War II + The UN System of Collective Security
36
Morgenthau, H. (1948). Politics among nations. The struggle for power and peace. New York, NY:
Alfred Knopf, pp. 232-242 (chapter XVI, section 4c “collective security”) 36
Morgenthau, H. (1948). Politics among nations. The struggle for power and peace. New York, NY:
Alfred Knopf, pp. 331-337 (chapter XXII, section 1 “collective security”). 39
The Italo-Ethiopian War 39
Tams, C. (2006). League of Nations. In R. Wolfrum (Ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public
International Law. 41
