The internationalists and their plan to outlaw war - Oona Anne Hathaway

'It will change the way you remember the 20th century and
read the news in the 21st' Steven Pinker

'A clarion call to preserve law and order across our planet' Philippe Sands

'A fascinating and important book ... given the state of the world, The Internationalists has come along at the right moment' Margaret MacMillan, Financial Times

Since the end of the Second World War, we have moved from an
international system in which war was legal, and accepted as the
ultimate arbiter of disputes between nations, to one in which it was
not. Nations that wage aggressive war have become outcasts and have
almost always had to give up their territorial gains. How did this
epochal transformation come about? This remarkable book, which combines
political, legal, and intellectual history, traces the origins and
course of one of the great shifts in the modern world.

'Sweeping and yet personable at the same time, The Internationalists
explores the profound implications of the outlawry of war. Professors
Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro enrich their analysis with vignettes of
the many individuals (some unknown to most students of History) who
played such important roles in this story. None have put it all together
in the way that Hathaway and Shapiro have done in this book' Paul Kennedy