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International Law and the Cold War (2019)
Book
Craven, M., Pahuja, S., & Simpson, G. (Eds.). (2019). International Law and the Cold War. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108615525

International Law and the Cold War is the first book dedicated to examining the relationship between the Cold War and International Law. The authors adopt a variety of creative approaches - in relation to events and fields such as nuclear war, enviro... Read More about International Law and the Cold War.

Colonial Fragments: Decolonization, Concessions, and Acquired Rights (2019)
Book Chapter
Craven, M. (2019). Colonial Fragments: Decolonization, Concessions, and Acquired Rights. In J. von Bernstorff, & P. Dann (Eds.), The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era (102-124). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198849636.003.0005

Concession agreements were at the heart of the battle for international law in the decolonization era. This chapter reconstructs the underpinnings of scholarly debates over the question to what extent and under which conditions Western investments in... Read More about Colonial Fragments: Decolonization, Concessions, and Acquired Rights.

‘Other Spaces’: Constructing the Legal Architecture of a Cold War Commons and the Scientific-Technical Imaginary of Outer Space (2019)
Journal Article
Craven, M. (2019). ‘Other Spaces’: Constructing the Legal Architecture of a Cold War Commons and the Scientific-Technical Imaginary of Outer Space. European Journal of International Law, 30(2), 547-572. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chz024

In this article, I seek to develop the argument that the law of outer space, as it was to be developed during the 1960s and 1970s, configured outer space as a ‘commons’ in order to
displace two prevailing ‘dystopic’ socio-technical imaginaries that... Read More about ‘Other Spaces’: Constructing the Legal Architecture of a Cold War Commons and the Scientific-Technical Imaginary of Outer Space.

Public State, Private Corporation : A Joint History of the Ideas of the Public/Private Distinction, the State, and the Corporation (2019)
Thesis
He, D. Public State, Private Corporation : A Joint History of the Ideas of the Public/Private Distinction, the State, and the Corporation. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Current liberal discourse relies upon a fundamentally categorical distinction between the public and the private in both the practice and critique of democratic government. A separation of the public/private modes of social organization is quintessen... Read More about Public State, Private Corporation : A Joint History of the Ideas of the Public/Private Distinction, the State, and the Corporation.