Antony Anghie, Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law

Abstract

Antony Anghie’s book Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law ambitiously seeks to retell the history of international law from the standpoint of the developing world. This book covers five centuries of international law, through three different but related approaches: an historical approach which documents modern international law from colonial times to the present; a jurisprudential- philosophical approach which attempts to tease out the important concepts and theories behind international law; and a political approach which seeks to understand international law from the perspective of great-power politics, economic development, globalization and nation building.