A review by mattrohn
The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World by Scott J. Shapiro, Oona A. Hathaway

5.0

This book does does great history, theory work, and contemporary application about international law in regards to war throughout the modern era, centering on the Kellogg-Briand Pact. It's really engaging all the way through and does an amazing job of creating a clear sense of change in the overarching world system in a way that only a very small handful of books I've read have come close to. This would have been an amazing book at any time but is particularly important now given the current administration's efforts, intentional and accidental, to destabilize the liberal international order, quite possibly the most important human achievement of the 20th century