Narrating the non-European nation-state[1] André Dao, Postdoctoral research fellow, Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law, Melbourne Law School In Antony Anghie’s Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law, the chapter on the League of Nations’ Mandate System turns on a key analogy. ‘The great literature of modernity’, writes Anghie, was ‘preoccupied with mapping the interior, with tracing and examining the workings of an inner consciousness.’ Meanwhile, international jurists, including those at the League, ‘sensed that access to the interior of the state Continue reading →