International Status in the Shadow of Empire : Nauru and the Histories of International Law Paperback / softback
by Cait (University of Technology Sydney) Storr
Part of the Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law series
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Nauru is often figured as an anomaly in the international order.
This book offers a new account of Nauru's imperial history and examines its significance to the histories of international law.
Drawing on theories of jurisdiction and bureaucracy, it reconstructs four shifts in Nauru's status – from German protectorate, to League of Nations C Mandate, to UN Trust Territory, to sovereign state – as a means of redescribing the transition from the nineteenth century imperial order to the twentieth century state system.
The book argues that as international status shifts, imperial form accretes: as Nauru's status shifted, what occurred at the local level was a gradual process of bureaucratisation.
Two conclusions emerge from this argument. The first is that imperial administration in Nauru produced the Republic's post-independence 'failures'.
The second is that international recognition of sovereign status is best understood as marking a beginning, not an end, of the process of decolonisation.
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- Pages:319 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 3 Maps; 12 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:10/03/2022
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- ISBN:9781108724104
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:319 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 3 Maps; 12 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:10/03/2022
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- ISBN:9781108724104