Cable Empires by Roxana Vatanparast
Cable Empires uncovers the hidden communications infrastructure that helped shape the international legal order. From submarine telegraph cables to the fiber-optic systems that underpin today's digital economy, global communication networks linked distant territories, reshaped knowledge, and transformed governance across empires, markets, and states. Cable networks unsettled conventional understandings of jurisdiction and sovereignty, while enabling new forms of political and economic power beyond territorial borders. At the same time, their construction and operation depended on Indigenous labor, resource extraction, corporate and state capital, territorial access, and international law. Bridging international law, history, and science and technology studies, Cable Empires offers a new account of how communications infrastructure and technology were intertwined with the development of the international legal order. In an era marked by struggles over digital sovereignty and geopolitical rivalry, it offers insight into the material and historical foundations of contemporary power and the legal arrangements that sustain them.-
Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law
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Sovereignty in China
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Capitalism As Civilisation
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Self-Determination in Disputed Colonial Territories
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United Nations Sanctions and the Rule of Law
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Making the Law of the Sea
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Cyber Warfare and the Laws of War
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Complicity and the Law of State Responsibility
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Substantive Protection under Investment Treaties
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Civil Liability in Europe for Terrorism-Related Risk
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Reading Humanitarian Intervention
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Recognition of Governments in International Law and Investment Arbitration
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International Investment Law and Legal Theory
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Cyber Operations and International Law
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Human Rights for the Data Society
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Minorities and the Making of Postcolonial States in International Law
- Making the World Safe for Investment
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State Responsibility for Breaches of Investment Contracts
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Regional Trade Agreements, Prosperity and the Global South
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International Leviathans
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The Classical Doctrine of Civil War in International Law
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Evolution of International Environmental Regimes
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Reciprocity in Public International Law
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Free Flow of Information
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The Theory and Practice of Dissolution of Parliament
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Submarines in International Law
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The Human Rights Treaty Obligations of Peacekeepers
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Marketing Global Justice
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Maritime Delimitation as a Judicial Process
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Comparative Reasoning in International Courts and Tribunals
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Forum Shopping in International Adjudication
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Cooperation in the Law of Transboundary Water Resources
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Democracy, Minorities and International Law
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Foreign Investment and the Environment in International Law
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Legitimacy and Legality in International Law
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The Right to Reparation in International Law for Victims of Armed Conflict
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The Origins of International Investment Law
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Humanitarian Disarmament
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The Process of International Legal Reproduction
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Humanitarian Occupation
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Trading Fish, Saving Fish
Roxana Vatanparast is an Associate Professor of Law at Capital University Law School. She has been an Instructor at Harvard Summer School since 2023. Previously, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009460316 |
| Title | Cable Empires |
| Author | Roxana Vatanparast |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In International And Comparative Law |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2026-12-31 |
| Number of pages | 170 |
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