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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      20 August 2020
      17 September 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108682602
      9781108498500
      9781108724104
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108682602
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.61kg, 320 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 320 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Legal History, Public International Law, Law, International Relations and International Organisations
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law (150)
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    Subjects:
    Legal History, Public International Law, Law, International Relations and International Organisations
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law (150)
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    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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