Arbitrating Empire uncovers how ordinary people used arbitral claims commissions to challenge state violence across the United States Empire during the first decades of the twentieth century and why the State Department attempts to erase their efforts remade modern international law.
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Contents
Cover
Series
Arbitrating Empire
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Subjects of International Law
Why Arbitration?
Archival Erasures
Map of the Book
PART I: DISPOSSESSIONS
1. Arbitrating Debt
Introduction
Gilt Trips
The Turn to Arbitration
Alternatives
Defining Dispossession
Creating a Canon
Conclusion
2. Arbitrating War
Election Overthrown
The Tridominium
The Bombardment
The Aftermath
The Claims Commission
3. Arbitrating Citizenship
A War for Law
Foreclosing on Claims Debt
The Laws of War
Denaturalizing Claimants
PART II: EXPOSURES
4. The World's Easement
International Eminent Domain
Depopulation
Refusing Displacement
The Joint Land Commissions
5. Dangerous Precedents
Public Utilities
Private Settlements
The Right to Be Generous
Arbitral Diplomacy
Negotiating with Claims Debt
PART III: FORECLOSURES
6. Sovereign Inequalities
Return to Arbitration
Fundamental Principles of International Law
Denials of Justice
Sovereign Inequalities
Proving Grounds
Arbitrating Accountability
7. The Specter of Compensation
Hunt's Dilemma
Denationalization
Collapse
Hull's Answer
The Global Settlement
Conclusion: Life and Property
Bibliography
Index.
ISBN
9780190093037
019009303X
9780190093013
0190093013
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