International Status in the Shadow of Empire Nauru and the Histories of International Law

Storr, C

International Status in the Shadow of Empire Nauru and the Histories of International Law

Storr, C

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Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Publication Type:: Book
Citation:: 2020, pp. 1-318
Issue Date:: 2020-06-30

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dc.contributor.author	Storr, C
dc.date.accessioned	2020-10-20T06:18:02Z
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dc.identifier.citation	2020, pp. 1-318
dc.identifier.isbn	1108498507
dc.identifier.isbn	9781108498500
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/143409
dc.description.abstract	Nauru is often figured as an anomaly in the international order. This book offers a new account of Nauru's imperial history and examines its significance to the histories of international law. Drawing on theories of jurisdiction and bureaucracy, it reconstructs four shifts in Nauru's status – from German protectorate, to League of Nations C Mandate, to UN Trust Territory, to sovereign state – as a means of redescribing the transition from the nineteenth century imperial order to the twentieth century state system. The book argues that as international status shifts, imperial form accretes: as Nauru's status shifted, what occurred at the local level was a gradual process of bureaucratisation. Two conclusions emerge from this argument. The first is that imperial administration in Nauru produced the Republic's post-independence 'failures'. The second is that international recognition of sovereign status is best understood as marking a beginning, not an end, of the process of decolonisation.
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dc.title	International Status in the Shadow of Empire Nauru and the Histories of International Law
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Abstract:

Nauru is often figured as an anomaly in the international order. This book offers a new account of Nauru's imperial history and examines its significance to the histories of international law. Drawing on theories of jurisdiction and bureaucracy, it reconstructs four shifts in Nauru's status – from German protectorate, to League of Nations C Mandate, to UN Trust Territory, to sovereign state – as a means of redescribing the transition from the nineteenth century imperial order to the twentieth century state system. The book argues that as international status shifts, imperial form accretes: as Nauru's status shifted, what occurred at the local level was a gradual process of bureaucratisation. Two conclusions emerge from this argument. The first is that imperial administration in Nauru produced the Republic's post-independence 'failures'. The second is that international recognition of sovereign status is best understood as marking a beginning, not an end, of the process of decolonisation.

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