War, exile and democratic crisis organized the world-mind in the early 1940s around the transitive exigences of states. Political in origin, those trials also magnified the pressure points of international legal personality due to the disaggregation of territory, people and legitimate, being democratic, government. France presents the paradigm case worthy of attention for the unexpected recoding of the normative lines of state identity by the cultural internationalism of French scholars in exile. L’École Libre Hautes Etudes (l’ÉLHE) in New York stands out as the representative of a civic and cultural code of state identity framed by the cultural activism of esteemed intellectuals and contingent on ideas or rather, on the ideal of the free state. Their symbolic ship of democracy alerts internationalists to the aleatory meetings between different codes of statehood which disrupt, and might easily progress, the normative rules of state identity during crisis. Three such encounters matter now, anchoring this study about what happens to international law when democracy fails, for the recoding of legal standards by cultural agents of state: of rules of state recognition, of territorial sovereignty and of the meaning of legal internationalism after war.

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民主之船

战争、流放和民主危机在 1940 年代初期围绕国家的过渡性紧急情况组织了世界思想。由于领土、人民和合法、民主的政府的分裂，这些审判在政治上也放大了国际法人的压力点。法国提出了一个值得关注的范式案例，即流亡法国学者的文化国际主义出人意料地重新编码了国家身份的规范线。纽约的 L'École Libre Hautes Etudes (l'ÉLHE) 作为国家认同的公民和文化代码的代表脱颖而出，该代码由受人尊敬的知识分子的文化激进主义所框架，并取决于思想，或者更确切地说，取决于自由国家的理想. 他们象征性的民主之船提醒国际主义者注意不同国家代码之间的偶然会议，这些代码在危机期间破坏并可能很容易地推进国家身份的规范规则。三个这样的遭遇现在很重要，锚定了这项关于民主失败时国际法会发生什么的研究，以重新编码国家文化代理人的法律标准：国家承认规则、领土主权规则和战后法律国际主义的意义。