Charlotte Peevers

The Politics of Justifying Force: The Suez Crisis, The Iraq War, and International Law

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CAST OF CHARACTERS 1. Prohibiting Force/Justifying Force 2. Theorising the Politics of Justification 3. The Suez Crisis 4. The Iraq War 5. Reflections on the Politics of Justification 6. The Distinctive Force of International Law POSTSCRIPT BIBLIOGRAPHY SOURCE MATERIAL ACADEMIC TEXTS

A deathless story: the ANZAC memorial, memory and international law

In this contribution, I stage the birth, death and resurrection of the ANZAC Memorial dedicated to fallen Australian and New Zealand mounted men in Egypt, Syria and Palestine 1916-18. I begin by re-performing acts in the Memorial’s life and then consider what is at stake in remembering and forgetting the Great War through a material object. I argue that encountering this artefact presents an opportunity to impose, resist and rethink the international legal orders foundational violence and warlikeness.