Book launch: 'The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World'

In The Internationalists, Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro suggest that there has been an “epochal transformation” in the international order since World War II, from “an international system in which war was legal, and accepted as the ultimate arbiter of disputes between nations, to one in which … [n] ations that wage aggressive war have become outcasts and have almost always had to give up their territorial gains.” The book offers a history of this fundamental shift, focusing in particular on the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928. The analysis has important implications for our thinking about the evolution of international law — and about current conflicts and the international order of the future.

Oona Hathaway will present the book, followed by a Q&A.

Oona A. Hathaway is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and Counselor to the Dean at the Yale Law School. She is also Professor of International Law and Area Studies at the Yale University MacMillan Center, on the faculty at the Jackson Institute for International Affairs, and Professor of the Yale University Department of Political Science.

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