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Part I, comprising two chapters, is concerned with historical analyses of the concepts of colonialism and neo-colonialism (Chap. 3), including an assessment of the role of law during European colonialism on the African continent (Chap. 4).

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  1. 1.

    See infra Chap. 3, Sects. 3.1 and 3.2.

  2. 2.

    See infra Chap. 3, Sect. 3.1 and infra Chap. 4.

  3. 3.

    See infra Chap. 3, Sect. 3.2.2.

  4. 4.

    See Koskenniemi 2005, p. 606.

  5. 5.

    On the label rogue states as used by the U.S., O’Reilly 2007, pp. 295–315.

  6. 6.

    This phrasing is used by Niall Ferguson in his recent book which is concerned with the question how a few Western states were able to dominate other parts of the world in the past (Ferguson 2011).

  7. 7.

    See infra Chap. 3, Sect. 3.1.

  8. 8.

    See infra Chap. 3, Sect. 3.2.

  9. 9.

    See infra Chap. 3, Sect. 3.4.

  10. 10.

    Young 1991, p. 2.

  11. 11.

    Kämmerer 2012, p. 333, para 3.

  12. 12.

    See infra Chap. 4, Sect. 4.3.

  13. 13.

    Chanock 1985, p. 4. In a similar vein, W. J. Mommsen notes: ‘There can be no doubt that the imposition of European law and European legal procedures upon various peoples in the non-Western world was in the first place a means of establishing and extending imperial control, formal or informal’ (Mommsen 1992, p. 2).

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Schuerch, R. (2017). Introduction Part I. In: The International Criminal Court at the Mercy of Powerful States. International Criminal Justice Series, vol 13. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-192-0_2

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