OUVRAGE : M. Abbenhuis, C.E. Barber, A.R. Higgins (eds.), War, Peace and International Order? The Legacies of the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907

Maartje ABBENHUIS, Christopher Ernest BARBER, Annalise R. HIGGINS

The exact legacies of the two Hague Peace Conferences remain unclear. On the one hand, diplomatic and military historians, who cast their gaze to 1914, traditionally dismiss the events of 1899 and 1907 as insignificant footnotes on the path to the First World War. On the other, experts in international law posit that The Hague’s foremost legacy lies in the manner in which the conferences progressed the law of war and the concept and application of international justice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction, Maartje Abbenhuis, Unbridled Promise? The Hague’s Peace Conferences and Their Legacies

1. William Mulligan, Justifying International Action: International Law, The Hague and Diplomacy Before 1914 

2. Randall Lesaffer, Peace Through Law: The Hague Peace Conferences and the Rise of the Ius Contra Bellum 

3. Neville Wylie, Muddied Waters: The Influence of the First Hague Conference on the Evolution of the Geneva Conventions of 1864 and 1906 

4. Andrew Webster, Reconsidering Disarmament at the Hague Peace Conference of 1899, and After 

5. M. Girard Dorsey, More than Just a Taboo: The Legacy of the Chemical Warfare Prohibitions of the 1899 and 1907 Hague Conferences 

6. Sarah Gendron, Sub Silentio: The Sexual Assault of Women in International Law 

7. Robert A. Nye, The Duel of Honour and the Origins of the Rules for Arms, Warfare and Arbitration in the Hague Conferences 

8. Annalise R. Higgins, Writing for Peace: Reconsidering the British Public Peace Petitioning Movement’s Historical Legacies After 1898 

9. Thomas Munro, The Hague as a Framework for British and American Newspapers’ Public Presentations of the First World War 

10. Marta Stachurska-Kounta, Norway’s Legalistic Approach to Peace in the Aftermath of the First World War 

11. Wolfgang Mueller, Against the Hague Conventions: Promoting New Rules for Neutrality in the Cold War 

12. Yolanda Gamarra, The Neutrals and Spanish Neutrality: A Legal Approach to International Peace in Constitutional Texts

Maartje ABBENHUIS, Christopher Ernest BARBER, Annalise R. HIGGINS (eds.), War, Peace and International Order? The Legacies of the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, Abingdon, Routledge, 2017 (230 pp.)