Review
... provides a much-needed assessment of the evolution of the idea of trusteeship. (International Affairs )
By carefully and judiciously charting the evolution of the trusteeship idea, the majority of this volume makes an important and timely contribution to the history of international society and further recent insights by Edward Keene, Richard Little and others. (International Affairs )
Between Anarchy and Society makes an important contribution to the way we understand the evolution of international society. (International Affairs )
By carefully and judiciously charting the evolution of the trusteeship idea, the majority of this volume makes an important and timely contribution to the history of international society and further recent insights by Edward Keene, Richard Little and others. (International Affairs )
Between Anarchy and Society makes an important contribution to the way we understand the evolution of international society. (International Affairs )
International Affairs
"Between Anarchy and Society makes an important contribution to the way we understand the evolution of international society."
International Affairs
"... provides a much-needed assessment of the evolution of the idea of trusteeship."
International Affairs
"... provides a much-needed assessment of the evolution of the idea of trusteeship."
Product Description
The international administration of troubled states - whether in Bosnia, Kosovo, or East Timor - has seen a return to the principle of trusteeship; that is when some form of international supervision is required in a particular territory in order both to maintain order and to foster the norms and practices of fair self-government. This innovative study rescues the normative discourse of trusteeship from the obscurity into which it has fallen since decolonization. It traces the development of trusteeship from its emergence out of debates concerning the misrule of the East India Company; its internationalization in imperial Africa; its institutionalization in the League of Nations mandates system, and, then, in the United Nations trusteeship system; and the destruction of its legitimacy by the ideas of self-determination and human equality. No other book brings this rich historical experience to bear on the dilemmas posed by the resurrection of trusteeship after the end of the Cold War. It is with a view to contemporary world problems that this book explores the obligations that attach to preponderant power and the limits that should be observed in exercising that power for the sake of global good. The book concludes by arguing that trusteeship remains fundamentally at odds with the ideas of human dignity and equality.
