Les « bons offices » du droit international : la constitution d’une autorité non politique dans le concert diplomatique des années 1920
Guillaume Sacriste
Antoine Vauchez
The “good offices” of international law:
the constitution of a non-political authority
in the diplomatic concert of the 1920s
The traditional debate surrounding the force of law in
international politics is re-examined here through an analysis of the concrete
operation of such transnational legal communities as emerged with the development
of multilateralism and of international organisations during the
1920s. This article reveals the social mechanisms underpinning the third
power constituted by jurists on the international stage of the period. It
underscores the particular vision of the international general good constructed
at the time within these academic transnational communities which
were constantly torn between national and international loyalties, on the one
hand, and between political and learned logic, on the other.
• Les principes d’unité d’un espace juridique international hétérogène
— Les juristes dans les « milieux internationalistes » des années 1920
— « Apolitique et universelle » : les gentlemen’s agreements
de la communauté juridique internationale
• Les principes de l’autorité spécifique du droit international
— Le « tiers-pouvoir » des juristes internationalistes
— « L’esprit d’internationalité » du droit international