Introduction: International Law and Empire-​Aspects and Approaches; I. Epistemologies of Empire and International Law; 1. Provincializing Grotius: International Law and Empire in a Seventeenth-​Century Malay Mirror; 2. Indirect Hegemonies in International Legal Relations: The Debate of Religious Tolerance in Early Republican China; 3. International Law, Empire, and the Relative Indeterminacy of Narrative; II. Legal Discourses of Empire 4. The Concepts of Universal Monarchy and Balance of Power in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century-​A Case Study5. Between Faith and Empire: The Justification of the Spanish Intervention in the French Wars of Religion in the 1590s; 6. Jus gentium and the Transformation of Latin American Nature: One More Reading of Vitoria?; 7. Cerberus: Rethinking Grotius and the Westphalian System; 8. Revolution, Empire, and Utopia: Tocqueville and the Intellectual Background of International Law; III. Managing Empire: Imperial Administration and Diplomacy 9. Towards the Empire of a 'Civilizing Nation': The French Revolution and Its Impact on Relations with the Ottoman Regencies in the Maghreb10. A Comporting Sovereign, Tribes, and the Ordering of Imperial Authority in Colonial Upper Canada of the 1830s; 11. Territory, Sovereignty, and the Construction of the Colonial Space; IV. A Legal Critique of Empire?; 12. An Anti-​Imperialist Universalism? Jus Cogens and the Politics of International Law; 13. Drift towards an Empire? The Trajectory of American Reformers in the Cold War 14. Imperium sine fine: Carneades, the Splendid Vice of Glory, and the Justice of Empire15. Scepticism of the Civilizing Mission in International Law; Index

By examining the relationship between international law and empire from early modernity to the present, this volume improves current understandings of the way international legal institutions, practices, and narratives have shaped imperial ideas about and structures of world governance. (Source: WorldCat https://search.worldcat.org/title/973375249)