BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute’s Practice of Global Politics Series pre sents Toynbee Foundation Prize recipient and Yale Professor Lauren Benton. Armed conflicts today are typically defined as ruptures of international l aw and order\, and responses tend to focus on strategies to limit the scop e and intensity of fighting. The long history of imperial violence suggest s instead that small wars form an integral part of the global legal order and that efforts to limit violence may lead directly to atrocities. These patterns are especially clear in the history of truces and of armed interv ention in European empires between 1400 and 1900. \;Lauren Benton is B arton M. Biggs Professor of History and professor of law at Yale Universit y. Her books include "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence" ( Princeton University Press\, 2024)\; "Rage for Order: The British Empire a nd the Origins of International Law" (coauthored with Lisa Ford\; Cambridg e University Press\, 2016)\; and "A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geogra phy in European Empires" (Cambridge University Press\, 2010). In 2019\, Be nton received the Toynbee Foundation Prize for significant contributions t o global history. DTEND:20240411T213000Z DTSTAMP:20260511T051518Z DTSTART:20240411T200000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Lauren Benton: Limiting War\, Sparking Atrocity UID:RFCALITEM639140589187835360 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Moynihan Institute’s Practice of Glob al Politics Series presents Toynbee Foundation Prize recipient and Yale Pr ofessor Lauren Benton.

Armed conflicts today a re typically defined as ruptures of international law and order\, and resp onses tend to focus on strategies to limit the scope and intensity of figh ting. The long history of imperial violence suggests instead that small wa rs form an integral part of the global legal order and that efforts to lim it violence may lead directly to atrocities. These patterns are especially clear in the history of truces and of armed intervention in European empi res between 1400 and 1900. \;

Lauren Benton is Barton M. Biggs P rofessor of History and professor of law at Yale University. Her books inc lude "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence" (Princeton Univer sity Press\, 2024)\; "Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins o f International Law" (coauthored with Lisa Ford\; Cambridge Unive rsity Press\, 2016)\; and "A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires" (Cambridge University Press\, 2010). In 2019\, Benton re ceived the Toynbee Foundation Prize for significant contributions to globa l history.

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