Peace Conferences and the Century Of Total War
The 1899 Hague Conference and What Came After
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7806955 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geoffrey Best (University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 619-634 |
| Publication date | 1999-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2346.00096 |
| OpenAlex | W1992227915 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
The Hague Peace Conference of 1899 was unprecedented and momentous. Pressed by public concern about the arms race and its costs, the governments of all great and most lesser powers, suppressing their doubts about the possibility of achieving anything, convened in May 1899 to discuss the Tsar's draft proposals for general measures of disarmament and pacification. Although there was too much mutual suspicion for any progress with disarmament, the Conference opened up a new era in international relations: its multilateral treaty to encourage arbitration and its establishment of a permanent court to facilitate this may be seen as the germ of the International Court of Justice; and within a batch of measures designed to modernize the laws of war, the Hague Regulations Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, recapitulated at the second such conference in 1907, became the basis of our century's laws of war. Apart from those achievements, given the grand aims of the Conference and the public interest it generated, it can be seen as a prototype of all League of Nations and United Nations gatherings ever since
Arbitration · Disarmament · Economic Justice · League · Political science · Spanish Civil War · Treaty · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law
Under Queensberry Rules, So to Speak’
British Peace Activism and ‘New’ Diplomacy
International Legitimacy and World Society
Supreme Courts under Nazi Occupation
Race, Sovereignty, and Free Trade
‘Most Potent and Irresistible Moral Influence’
Disarmament Debates around the 1899 Hague Peace Conference and the 1921–1922 Washington Conference
International law and ‘humanity’ in the making and unmaking of European solidarity, 1830–1915
The Formation of International Organizations and India
War, Law, Society, and the Courts, 1939-1945
How international humanitarian law develops
Duty or Crime? Defining Acceptable Behavior in the British Army in South Africa, 1899–1902
Aristocrats in Arbitration
La Corte De Justicia Centro Americana (1907-1918)
The Invention of the Concentration Camp
Unpacking the impact of mega-regional agreements
Accidental Activists
The Declaration of London
International Law and the Transformation of War, 1899-1949
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |