Description: From Eastern Europe to Africa and Asia, socialist governments and experts have fundamentally shaped progressive ideas of international law: from anti-imperialism and anti-racism, to health as a human right. This volume explores the importance of these contributions pre- and post-Cold War, as well as their relevance to current international crises.
Review Quotes: "Socialism and International Law. The Cold War and its Legacies offers a compelling argument for recognizing the contributions of socialist states to the development of international law. It provides an overview of the early intra-socialist theoretical debates over the role of law in socialist societies and then charts the development of pluralistic socialist approaches to international law. Subsequently, the book details the contributions of socialist states to a variety of core fields of international law, such as national self determination, decolonization, peace, and anti-apartheid. Hence, historians and legal scholars of international law will find this book crucial in developing new research directions." -- Iulian Petre Jianu, RevDem
"This very important and meticulously curated edited volume re-anchors the history of international law in a set of documented intellectual projects, interventions in international practice, and often poignant trajectories of individual scholars caught in professional fields where commitment and cynicism, courage andfear, determination and resignation, frequently collide. It also invites the reader to pick up a thread that the book itself deliberately leaves off at the end of the Cold War." -- Marek Jan Wasiński, Comparative Legal History