TY - JOUR
AU - Matar, Dina
AB - 654 : d iplom a tic h istor y norms or principles, once claimed by a state as lawful, become common property of all and do their work even against the originator. In order to remain productive and accurate, the focus on the relation of law to power must guard against reducing “power” to a force wielded by unitary agents operating in a vacuum. Contextualization must be multiform and broad. We needed to know much more about the U.S. domestic force-field that formed the discursive environment into which international law fit so snugly. How did public opinion, with its strong approval of arbitration, figure in the ascendancy of international law in this period? Why did the Senate block so many treaties of which their constituents approved? And what about global politics? After all, it was the British prime minister whose threat to intervene in South America (to- gether with other European powers) moved Roosevelt to announce his “Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, making the United States the policeman of the hemisphere (112). Coates has done a good job in attracting our attention to a very important and complex subject and in sketching the possible contours of an interpretation. His 
TI - Co-optation of Third Worldism
JO - Diplomatic History
DO - 10.1093/dh/dhx038
DA - 2017-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/co-optation-of-third-worldism-I4cJGXTmLZ
SP - 654
EP - 657
VL - 41
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -