Resumen de Emmanuelle Jouannet. The Liberal-Welfarist Law of Nations: A History of International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. viii + 318. £60. ISBN: 978110701894.

Andrew Lang

• This text, an excellent English translation of the original 2011 French publication, represents an ambitious attempt to tell a new history of international law over three centuries, from the 18th century "law of nations of the Moderns" to the present day. Its central move is to orient this history round an account of international law's dual purposes, one "liberal", the other "welfarist":

  international law is neither narrowly welfarist law nor narrowly liberal .. it is indeed liberalwelfarist law and � one of the keys to its meaning lies in the conjunction of these two purposes (at 7).