War, Peace and International Order?

Introduction: Unbridled Promise? The Hague's Peace Conferences and Their Legacies

Maartje Abbenhuis

1 Justifying International Action: International Law, The Hague and Diplomacy Before 1914

William Mulligan

2 Peace Through Law: The Hague Peace Conferences and the Rise of the Ius Contra Bellum

Randall Lesaffer

3 Muddied Waters: The Influence of the First Hague Conference on the Evolution of the Geneva Conventions of 1864 and 1906

Neville Wylie

4 Reconsidering Disarmament at the Hague Peace Conference of 1899, and After

Andrew Webster

5 More than Just a Taboo: The Legacy of the Chemical Warfare Prohibitions of the 1899 and 1907 Hague Conferences

M. Girard Dorsey

6 Sub Silentio: The Sexual Assault of Women in International Law

Sarah Gendron

7 The Duel of Honour and the Origins of the Rules for Arms, Warfare and Arbitration in the Hague Conferences

Robert A. Nye

8 Writing for Peace: Reconsidering the British Public Peace Petitioning Movement's Historical Legacies After 1898

Annalise R. Higgins

9 The Hague as a Framework for British and American Newspapers' Public Presentations of the First World War

Thomas Munro

10 Norway's Legalistic Approach to Peace in the Aftermath of the First World War

Marta Stachurska-Kounta

11 Against the Hague Conventions: Promoting New Rules for Neutrality in the Cold War

Wolfgang Mueller

12 The Neutrals and Spanish Neutrality: A Legal Approach to International Peace in Constitutional Texts

Yolanda Gamarra