Book contents
- International Law and the Cold War
- International Law and the Cold War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- About the Editors
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Reading and Unreading a Historiography of Hiatus
- Part I The Anti-linear Cold War
- Part II The Generative/Productive Cold War
- Part III The Parochial/Plural Cold War
- 16 The Cold War in Soviet International Legal Discourse
- 17 The Dao of Mao: Sinocentric Socialism and the Politics of International Legal Theory
- 18 ‘The Dust of Empire’: the Dialectic of Self-Determination and Re-colonisation in the First Phase of the Cold War
- 19 The ‘Bihar Famine’ and the Authorisation of the Green Revolution in India: Developmental Futures and Disaster Imaginaries
- 20 Pakistan’s Cold War(s) and International Law
- 21 International Law, Cold War Juridical Theatre and the Making of the Suez Crisis
- 22 To Seek with Beauty to Set the World Right: Cold War International Law and the Radical ‘Imaginative Geography’ of Pan-Africanism
- 23 John Le Carré, International Law and the Cold War
- 24 Postcolonial Hauntings and Cold War Continuities: Congolese Sovereignty and the Murder of Patrice Lumumba
- 25 End Times in the Antipodes: Propaganda and Critique in On the Beach
- References to Cold War Volume
- Index
23 - John Le Carré, International Law and the Cold War
from Part III - The Parochial/Plural Cold War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2019
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Book contents
- International Law and the Cold War
- International Law and the Cold War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- About the Editors
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Reading and Unreading a Historiography of Hiatus
- Part I The Anti-linear Cold War
- Part II The Generative/Productive Cold War
- Part III The Parochial/Plural Cold War
- 16 The Cold War in Soviet International Legal Discourse
- 17 The Dao of Mao: Sinocentric Socialism and the Politics of International Legal Theory
- 18 ‘The Dust of Empire’: the Dialectic of Self-Determination and Re-colonisation in the First Phase of the Cold War
- 19 The ‘Bihar Famine’ and the Authorisation of the Green Revolution in India: Developmental Futures and Disaster Imaginaries
- 20 Pakistan’s Cold War(s) and International Law
- 21 International Law, Cold War Juridical Theatre and the Making of the Suez Crisis
- 22 To Seek with Beauty to Set the World Right: Cold War International Law and the Radical ‘Imaginative Geography’ of Pan-Africanism
- 23 John Le Carré, International Law and the Cold War
- 24 Postcolonial Hauntings and Cold War Continuities: Congolese Sovereignty and the Murder of Patrice Lumumba
- 25 End Times in the Antipodes: Propaganda and Critique in On the Beach
- References to Cold War Volume
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores Le Carrç's novels as a means through which a pecularly British view of Cold War legalities might be explored or examined. It is argued that Le Carrç evokes in his novels an account of British moral confusion and psychological disintegration that were induced, in part, by a decline in its international political standing and its inability to sustain a coherent international normative vision. As a consequence, it was unable to uphold the international law of the Atlantic Charter and the UN Charter.
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- International Law and the Cold War , pp. 510 - 532Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019