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Introduction : history, politics, law : thinking through the international / Annabel Brett, Megan Donaldson, Martti Koskenniemi -- Between history, politics and law : history of political thought and history of international law / Annabel Brett -- The past according to international law : a practice of history and histories of a practice / Martti Koskenniemi -- The context for context : international legal history in struggle / David Kennedy -- After method : international law and the problems of history / Gerry Simpson -- Carl Schmitt's international thought and the state / Armin von Bogdandy & Adeel Hussain -- Carl Schmitt on the theory and practice of occupation and dictatorship / Joshua Smeltzer & Duncan Kelly -- Law of nations, world of empires : the politics of law's conceptual frames / Jennifer Pitts -- The history of political thought in the african political present / Emma Hunter -- The [in]hospitable world / Julia McClure -- Ventriloquism in Geneva : the league of nations as international organisation / Megan Donaldson -- Sea change / Surabhi Ranganathan -- The political economy of context : theories of economic development and the study of conceptual change / Joel Isaac Gender -- Gender in the state of nature / Anna Becker -- Gender and the lost private side of international law / Karen Knop.

Historians of political thought and international lawyers have both expanded their interest in the formation of the present global order. History, Politics, Law is the first express encounter between the two disciplines, juxtaposing their perspectives on questions of method and substance. The essays throw light on their approaches to the role of politics and the political in the history of the world beyond the single polity. They discuss the contrast between practice and theory as well as the role of conceptual and contextual analyses in both fields. Specific themes raised for both disciplines include statehood, empires and the role of international institutions, as well as the roles of economics, innovation and gender. The result is a vibrant cross-section of contrasts and parallels between the methods and practices of the two disciplines, demonstrating the many ways in which both can learn from each other.