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Gabriela A. Frei examines how sea powers used international law as an instrument in foreign policy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, illuminating key developments of international maritime law surrounding state practice, custom, and codification, and outlining the complex relationship between international law and maritime strategy.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: The Sea as a Legal and Strategic Space
- 2: The Making of the Law of Neutrality
- 3: The Law of Neutrality and State Practice
- 4: The Codification of International Maritime Law
- 5: The Hague and London Conferences and the Rise of an International Legal Order
- 6: Maritime Strategic Thought and International Law
- 7: International Law and the Theory of War
- Conclusion: Sea Power, International Law, and Future Wars
About the author
Gabriela A. Frei is an Associate Member of the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford and an Early Career Fellow at the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). She holds a DPhil in History and a MSt in Historical Research from the University of Oxford, and she was awarded a degree of Licentiata Philosophiae (history, constitutional law, and English literature) from the University of Bern, Switzerland. She held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Cambridge, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and the University of Oxford. Her research and publications focus on the relationship between international law, maritime strategy, and politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has a particular interest in the role of jurists in international politics, and how law shapes political agendas.
Summary
Gabriela A. Frei examines how sea powers used international law as an instrument in foreign policy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, illuminating key developments of international maritime law surrounding state practice, custom, and codification, and outlining the complex relationship between international law and maritime strategy.
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The book is invaluable to comprehensively assess the place of legal arguments in the British decision-making process.
