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  • Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).]

    Capitalism and the Telos of the Neoliberal Civilizing Mission

    Originally published: Legal Form on January 14, 2021 by Jessica Whyte (more by Legal Form) (Posted Jan 20, 2021)

    In 1931 the British Colonial Office submitted a special report to the Council of the League of Nations on the “Progress of Iraq” in the previous decade. Since the First World War had ended with the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire and the confiscation of its territories, Iraq had been governed as a British mandate, under the supervision of the League.