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"Events: The Force of International Law" presents an analysis of international law, centred upon those historical and recent events in which international law has exerted, or acquired, its force. From Spanish colonization and the Peace of Westphalia, through the release of Nelson Mandela and the Rwandan genocide, and to recent international trade negotiations and the 'torture memos', each chapter in this book focuses on a specific international legal event. Short and accessible to the non-specialist reader, these chapters consider what forces are put into play when international law is invoked, as it is so frequently today, by lawyers, laypeople, or leaders. At the same time, they also reflect on what is entailed in naming these 'events' of international law and how international law grapples with their disruptive potential. Engaging economic, military, cultural, political, philosophical and technical fields, "Events: The Force of International Law" will be of interest to international lawyers and scholars of international relations, legal history, diplomatic history, war and/or peace studies, and legal theory.It is also intended to be read and appreciated by anyone familiar with appeals to international law from the general media, and curious about the limits and possibilities occasioned, or the forces mobilised, by that appeal.

"Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Contents" -- "List of Illustrations" -- "Figures" -- "Tables" -- "Maps" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Chapter 1: Partial history" -- "Chapter 2: Representations of modern life in 1938" -- "Being modern – speed and size" -- "Newsreels" -- "Cigarette cards" -- "Modern wonders for boys and young men" -- "Material aimed at adults" -- "Conclusion" -- "Chapter 3: Glasgow's Empire Exhibition" -- "Design of the exhibition" -- "Visiting and experiencing the exhibition" -- "Conclusion" -- "Chapter 4: Big-screen televisions and push-button radios" -- "Stages in dissemination" -- "Radio in 1938" -- "Radio broadcasting in 1938" -- "Television in 1938" -- "Television sets" -- "Programmes" -- "Conclusion" -- "Chapter 5: The Adelphi Building" -- "The original Adelphi" -- "The intrusion of the modern world" -- "The development of head offices in Britain" -- "The Adelphi Building" -- "Conclusion" -- "Chapter 6: Picture Post – The modernity of everyday life" -- "The origins of Picture Post" -- "The look and content of Picture Post" -- "Celebrity culture in 1930s Britain" -- "Other 1930s ordinariness" -- "Ordinariness and democratization" -- "Conclusion" -- "Chapter 7: Cars, coaches and charabancs at the Prospect Inn" -- "The growing popularity and luxury of charabancs and motor coaches" -- "Entertaining the charabanc tripper" -- "The halfway house" -- "New arterial roads and the Prospect Inn" -- "Charabancs and class separation" -- "Providing for the respectable working-class drinker" -- "Conclusion" -- "Chapter 8: Britain's new airports" -- "Interwar aviation and public admiration" -- "Interwar aviation and passenger travel" -- "Networks" -- "Conclusion" -- "Chapter 9: Conclusion" -- "Class and wealth" -- "Americanization" -- "Consumption" -- "Network development" -- "Urban formation" -- "In summary" -- "Notes