Blood of Nations, Blood of Empire: Pan-Slavism as a Critique of International Law in Late Imperial Russia and Beyond
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Blood of Nations, Blood of Empire: Pan-Slavism as a Critique of International Law in Late Imperial Russia and Beyond
German Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 66 (2023), Iss. 1 : pp. 37–60
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Eric Loefflad, University of Kent Canterbury, UK
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Abstract: While international lawyers analysing Vladimir Putin’s ongoing actions and justifications through the broad arc of Russian history have no shortage of materials to draw upon, one comparatively under-explored discourse is the Russian tradition of Pan-Slavism. In this piece I argue that while Russian Pan-Slavism – and its invocation of a common Slavic destiny – provides an important resource, uncovering its origins and content requires a new approach to international legal history better attuned to the overlap between nationalism and imperialism. Towards this end I focus on how interactions within and between various empires, especially those in Central and Eastern Europe, gave rise to a distinctly Pan-Slavic consciousness that Russia ultimately championed through a distinctly paternalist anti-imperial imperialism. This contextual account culminates in a reading of Nikolai Danilevskii’s 1869 text
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| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Loefflad\nBlood of Nations, Blood of Empire: Pan-Slavism as a Critique of International Law in Late Imperial Russia and Beyond | 37 | ||
| Introduction | 37 | ||
| I. Law, Nations, Empires, and Russia in Global History | 40 | ||
| II. The Geopolitical Consciousness of Proto-Slavdom | 44 | ||
| III. Pan-Slavism and How it Became Russian | 49 | ||
| IV. Nikolai Danilevskii’s Critique of International Law | 52 | ||
| Conclusion | 57 |