Covering the period from the eighteenth century to the present, A Sociology of Post-Imperial Constitutions combines global history and historical legal sociology to explain how democratic constitutions were created by imperialism and military policies related to imperialism. It challenges common views about the relation between democracy and peace, examining how, in different locations and different periods, the constitutional ordering of citizenship both reflected and perpetuated warfare. It also isolates the features of constitutional systems that have been successful in obviating military violence, separating democracy from its military origins. It discusses how the emergence of democratic government after 1945 depended on a dialectical transformation of the war/law nexus in constitutional rule. It then assesses ways in which, and the reasons why, many contemporary constitutions have begun to remilitarize their societies and to rearticulate military constructs of legitimacy.
This book explains how democratic constitutions were created by imperialism. It uses a global-sociological method to show how imperialist patterns of violence persistently affected the development of constitutional democracies, challenging standard views concerning the relationship between democracy, war, and peace.
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This book explains how democratic constitutions were created by imperialism and how they have been detached from their military origins.
1. Imperialism and the origins of constitutions;
2. Constitutions and
the persistence of empires;
3. Imperialism and global civil war;
4. Imperial
nations in the Iberian region;
5. Military constitutions in and after the
Ottoman empire;
6. World law and occupation constitutions;
7. The occupation
constitution II: changing security constitutions;
8. The occupation
constitution III: constitutions without war;
9. Constitutions after war;
10.
New security constitutions.
Chris Thornhill is Professor of Law at the University of Birmingham. He has held Professorships in Politics, Sociology and Law in Glasgow, Manchester and Bielefeld. He has received prizes for research in law and society from the Humboldt Foundation, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, and the World Complexity Science Academy. This is his third book in Cambridge Studies in Law and Society, following A Sociology of Constitutions (2011) and A Sociology of Transnational Constitutions (2016).
