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1 online resource |
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History and theory of international law |
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History and theory of international law.
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| Contents |
'With an eye to the past', but no longer 'an object of international law': the late birth and early demise of the Jewish Yearbook of International Law -- A radical transformation?: international law and the sovereign turn in Jewish history -- Terms of engagement: international law, the Jewish question, ediology, and ambivalence -- Lauterpacht in Jerusalem: individual petition and the politics of Jewish representation -- 'The extreme non-Zionist, apolitical concept of Jewish public life': petitions, human rights, standing, and representation -- From a 'marginal problem' to the 'supreme international jurisdiction': Israel and the Genocide Convention -- 'A false and perverse doctrine': the Genocide Convention and Jewish nationalism -- Sovereign sensibilities and Jewish refugees: Jacob Robinson and the drafting of the 1951 Refugee Convention -- 'A better remedy': Shabtai Rosenne, ratification of the 1951 Refugee Convention, and the end of Jewish statelessness -- Revolutionaries, torchbearers, and imperfect subjects: the Zionist creed and the test of sovereignty |
| Summary |
"Jews, Sovereignty, and International Law explores Israel's engagement with international law during the early years of statehood, and the role of ideology in shaping how Ministry of Foreign Affairs legal advisers approached international law at the age of Jewish sovereignty. Drawing on archival sources, the book reveals the patent ambivalence of these jurist-diplomats--Jacob Robinson and Shabtai Rosenne--towards three international law reform projects: the right of petition in the draft Human Rights Covenant; the 1948 Genocide Convention; and the 1951 Refugee Convention. In all cases, Rosenne and Robinson approached international law with disinterest, aversion, and hostility while, nonetheless, investing much time and toil in these post-war reforms. They were ambivalent towards international law precisely because of, not despite, the 'Jewish aspect' of the right of petition and the human rights project, the Genocide Convention, and the Refugee Convention. The book demonstrates that, rather than the Middle East conflict, Rosenne and Robinson's ambivalence towards international law was driven by ideological sensibilities predating Israel's establishment. Their ambivalence expressed the terms on which pre-state Zionism approached international law: inherent ambivalence confirmed by political experience and fuelled by contestation with competing visions of Jewish emancipation. They approached international law through the prism of the creed of Jewish nationalism, testing it against the yardstick of Zionism's interpretation of the modern Jewish condition and its prescriptions for resolving the Jewish Question. Jews, Sovereignty, and International Law reconstructs the terms of national Jewish engagements with international law to challenge prevalent assumptions on the cosmopolitan outlook of Jewish scholars and practitioners of international law, offer new vantage points on modern Jewish history, and critique orthodox interpretations of the Jewish aspect of Israel's foreign policy"--Publisher's description |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on February 9, 2022) |
| Subject |
International law -- Israel
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Sovereignty.
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Diplomacy -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Ideology -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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sovereignty.
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Diplomatic relations
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Ideology -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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International law
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Sovereignty
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| SUBJECT |
Israel -- Foreign relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068694
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Israel
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192599285 |
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0192599283 |
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