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Philanthropy, Conflict Management and International Law
The 1914 Carnegie Report on the Balkan Wars of 1912/13
This book centers on the Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars, published in Washington in the early summer of 1914 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The volume was born from the conviction that the full assessment of the significance of the Carnegie Report—one of the first international non-governmental fact-finding missions with the intention to promote peace—requires a deeper exploration of the context of its birth.
The authors examine how the countries involved in the wars handled the inquires of the Carnegie Commission and the role of the report in the remembrance of the wars in the respective states. Although the report considered both the Ottoman Empire and the Balkan nation-states insufficiently civilized to wage wars within the limits of the codes of conduct of international law, this orientalist conclusion can in part be explained by the liberal internationalist strategy of the Carnegie Endowment, and of the commission members' professional, political, and ethnic background. Overshadowed by the outbreak of World War I, the Carnegie Report's direct impact on international arbitration or international criminal law was limited, yet—in the authors' opinion—it ultimately contributed to the further juridification of international relations
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"While the 1913 Carnegie Report features prominently in histories of modern warfare, ethnic cleansing, and human rights, this volume breaks new ground by foregrounding its importance in the evolution of international law. The book offers incredible breadth and depth: from the complex legal and philanthropic contexts of the report's making to the fascinating biographies of the men who wrote it to its uneven and politicized reception in the Balkans and beyond, we learn a plethora of captivating information about its origins and impact in a truly global perspective. A must read for scholars and students of international law and organizations, human rights, and Balkan, European, and global history."—Theodora Dragostinova
"There has been a drift of late to fathom the Balkans as a precursor of, and its history as anticipating, larger political trends in the rest of Europe and the world. This volume takes that trail in an unsuspected direction. As the articles gathered here suggest, the historian studying modern international law on national self-determination, nation-state formation, and minority rights must start first with the 1912–13 Balkan Wars and the 1914 Carnegie Report and only then seek reverberations in later twentieth-century institutional innovations on the European and global scale. The contributions to the volume, carried out with dexterity and insight, advance a coherent set of interpretations that throw into relief unexplored and hidden aspects of the making of international law and international organizations."—Diana Mishkova
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