TY - JOUR
T1 - Establishing expansion as a legal right
T2 - an analysis of French colonial discourse surrounding protectorate treaties
AU - Yoon, Jong pil
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/8/17
Y1 - 2020/8/17
N2 - This essay analyses French literature on protectorates that was published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Firstly, I examine French understanding of protectorates with a focus on contrasting views about whether or not a protectorate treaty warrants the intervention of the protector in the internal affairs of the protected. In doing so, I attempt to delineate specific ways legal scholarship engaged with the ideological construction of a supposedly uncivilized other. Then I move on to trace the development of a type of argument employed by the French to justify their colonialism that had to do with protectorate treaties. In the discussion, I explain the particular role the ‘violation’ argument played within French colonial discourse, both in the absence of the ‘territorium nullius’ argument, and in the face of critics of empire. Lastly, I place under scrutiny the relationship between the ‘violation’ argument and the distinction of two kinds of coercion–coercion of a state, and coercion of its representative.
AB - This essay analyses French literature on protectorates that was published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Firstly, I examine French understanding of protectorates with a focus on contrasting views about whether or not a protectorate treaty warrants the intervention of the protector in the internal affairs of the protected. In doing so, I attempt to delineate specific ways legal scholarship engaged with the ideological construction of a supposedly uncivilized other. Then I move on to trace the development of a type of argument employed by the French to justify their colonialism that had to do with protectorate treaties. In the discussion, I explain the particular role the ‘violation’ argument played within French colonial discourse, both in the absence of the ‘territorium nullius’ argument, and in the face of critics of empire. Lastly, I place under scrutiny the relationship between the ‘violation’ argument and the distinction of two kinds of coercion–coercion of a state, and coercion of its representative.
KW - coercion
KW - excessive contextualization
KW - French colonialism
KW - Orientalism
KW - Protectorate treaties
KW - ‘violation’ argument
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U2 - 10.1080/01916599.2020.1722725
DO - 10.1080/01916599.2020.1722725
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85079448801
SN - 0191-6599
VL - 46
SP - 811
EP - 826
JO - History of European Ideas
JF - History of European Ideas
IS - 6
ER -