The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas: Empire and Legal Networks (History and Theory of International Law)

This book offers the first exploration of the deployment of international law for the legitimization of U.S. ascendancy as an informal empire in Latin America. This book explores the intellectual history of a distinctive idea of American international law in the Americas, focusing principally on the evolution of the American Institute of International Law (AIIL). Abstract: This book offers the first exploration of the deployment of international law for the legitimization of U.S. ascendancy as an informal empire in Latin America. This book explores the intellectual history of a distinctive idea of American international law in the Americas, focusing principally on the evolution of the American Institute of International Law (AIIL) Content: Cover Series The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Hemispheric Legal Networks and Languages in the Americas 1. American International Law, Scott, Alvarez, and the American Institute of International Law 2. Empire and the History of International Law 3. The Imperial and Cultural Turns in US-Latin American Relations: Toward a Hemispheric Intellectual and Comparative Perspecti 4. Outline of the Chapters Abbreviations 1. Toward a Pan-American Legal Order: The Rise of US Hemispheric Hegemony and Elihu Root's Visit to South America1. From US Interventionism to Pan-Americanism 2. The Rise of International Law in the United States: Root and the American Peace Movement 3. Root's Encounter with South America 2. Forging and Consolidating a Hemispheric Legal Network: The Creation of the American Institute of International Law and the E 1. The Creation of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the American Institute of International Law 2. The Resonances of Root's Approach: Bacon's Tour of South America3. The Institutionalization of the American Institute of International Law and Its First Two Meetings 3. The Pan-American Redefinition of the Monroe Doctrine and the Emerging Language of American International Law 1. The Monroe Doctrine, Pan-Americanism, and the ABC Countries 2. Contending Conceptions of Intervention: Luis María Drago and Theodore Roosevelt 3. Toward a Pan-American Monroe Doctrine: Alejandro Alvarez, Elihu Root, Baltasar Brum, and Charles Evans Hughes 4. International Organization and Hegemony: The Codification of American International Law and the Tensions between James Brown1. The New Quest for International Organization in the Americas after the First World War and the Initial Projects Advanced by Alejandro Alvarez for Codification 2. Combating Anti-Yankee Ideology: The Reorganization of the American Institute of International Law and the Consolidation of 3. Contending Approaches to Codification at the Rio de Janeiro Commission: Between US-.led Pragmatic Elitism and Pan-.American 5. The Debate over Intervention at Havana and the Crisis of the American Institute of International Law: James Brown Scott's Di1. International Law and Real Politics: From Codification to the Debate over Intervention 2. International Legal Optimism in Times of Crisis: US Utopian Plans for a Civilizing Center of American International Law in C 3. The Decline of the American Institute of International Law and the Rise of Inter-.American Multilateralism: The Anti-.War T Présentation de l'éditeur : "International law has played a crucial role in the construction of imperial projects. Yet within the growing field of studies about the history of international law and empire, scholars have seldom considered this complicit relationship in the Americas. The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas offers the first exploration of the deployment of international law for the legitimization of U.S. ascendancy as an informal empire in Latin America. This book explores the intellectual history of a distinctive idea of American international law in the Americas, focusing principally on the evolution of the American Institute of International Law (AIIL). This organization was created by U.S. and Chilean jurists James Brown Scott and Alejandro Alvarez in Washington D.C. for the construction, development, and codification of international law across the Americas. Juan Pablo Scarfi examines the debates sparked by the AIIL over American international law, intervention and non-intervention, Pan-Americanism, the codification of public and private international law and the nature and scope of the Monroe Doctrine, as well as the international legal thought of Scott, Alvarez, and a number of jurists, diplomats, politicians, and intellectuals from the Americas. Professor Scarfi argues that American international law, as advanced primarily by the AIIL, was driven by a U.S.-led imperial aspiration of civilizing Latin America through the promotion of the international rule of law. By providing a convincing critical account of the legal and historical foundations of the Inter-American System, this book will stimulate debate among international lawyers, IR scholars, political scientists, and intellectual historians." This work offers an exploration of the deployment of international law for the legitimization of U.S. ascendancy as an informal empire in Latin America. This text explores the intellectual history of a distinctive idea of American international law in the Americas, focusing principally on the evolution of the American Institute of International Law (AIIL). Toward a Pan-American legal order : the rise of the US hemispheric hegemony and Elihu Root's visit to South America -- 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 -- The Pan-American redefinition of the Monroe Doctrine and the emerging language of American international law -- International organization and hegemony : the codification of American international law and tensions between James Brown Scott and Alejandro Alvarez -- The debate over intervention at Havana and the crisis of the American Institute of International law : James Brown Scott's displacement of Alejandro Alvarez -- 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 -- Conclusion: From US hemispheric to global hegemony : assessing the legacy of American international law and the American Institute of International Law in the Americas. Juan Pablo Scarfi. Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-227) and index.