39151. Sleepy Side Alleys, Dead Ends, and the Perpetuation of Eurocentrism
- Author:
- Stefan B. Kirmse
- Publication Date:
- 02-2014
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Abstract:
- My reading of The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law, edited by Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters, has undoubtedly been framed by my own field of research. This field is not international law, but the historical anthropology of Russia and Eurasia and includes changing legal practice in a context of increasing global connectedness. My review is therefore not intended to relate the Oxford Handbook to the wider historiography of international law, which I leave to other contributions in this symposium; it is meant to offer an external perspective on the question of Eurocentric analysis. The editors of the Handbook have identified Eurocentrism as one of the key challenges to overcome in the study of international law.
- Topic:
- International Law
- Political Geography:
- Russia and Persia