This book explains the Western colonial project and the West's attempt to legitimize it through its international law, refusing the presumed universalism of the Western concept of human rights compared with the Arab declarations on rights. The book is addressed to readers interested in legal history and political thought.
This book explains the Western colonial project and the West's attempt to legitimize it through its international law, refusing the presumed universalism of the Western concept of human rights compared with the Arab declarations on rights. The book is addressed to readers interested in legal history and political thought.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Gustavo Gozzi is full professor of the History of Political Doctrines and the History of International Law. He is currently Alma Mater Professor in Multiculturalism and Cultural Relativism at the University of Bologna. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the King Abdulaziz Chair for Islamic Studies at the University of Bologna. He has conducted research at the Max Planck Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt am Main and has been visiting professor in Tunis, Istanbul, Tarragona, and Corinth. He is director of the series Democracies, Rights, Constitutions, and has founded a master's programme in International Cooperation on Human Rights and Intercultural Heritage.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface to this English translation Introduction Acknowledgements A note on the contents Part I. Ius Gentium and the Origins of International Law: 1. The rights of peoples and ius gentium: The origins of the modern age 2. Hugo Grotius and the law of peoples 3. Samuel Pufendorf and Emer de Vattel: Kant's 'miserable comforters' 4. The rights of man and cosmopolitan law: Kantian roots in the current debate on rights Part II. International Law and Western Civilization: 5. International law and Western civilization 6. International law, peace, and justice: Hans Kelsen's normativism 7. Realist perspectives: historiography, international law, international relations 8. Order and anarchy: the Grotian tradition Part III. International Law, Islam, and the Third World: 9. The law of peoples and international law 10. Islam and rights: Islamic and Arab charters of the rights of man 11. The Third World and international law Part IV. Conditions for Peace: 12. The foundation of human rights: an intercultural perspective 13. Parallel worlds: international governance and the (utopian?) principles of international law Glossary of Arab terms Index.
Preface to this English translation Introduction Acknowledgements A note on the contents Part I. Ius Gentium and the Origins of International Law: 1. The rights of peoples and ius gentium: The origins of the modern age 2. Hugo Grotius and the law of peoples 3. Samuel Pufendorf and Emer de Vattel: Kant's 'miserable comforters' 4. The rights of man and cosmopolitan law: Kantian roots in the current debate on rights Part II. International Law and Western Civilization: 5. International law and Western civilization 6. International law, peace, and justice: Hans Kelsen's normativism 7. Realist perspectives: historiography, international law, international relations 8. Order and anarchy: the Grotian tradition Part III. International Law, Islam, and the Third World: 9. The law of peoples and international law 10. Islam and rights: Islamic and Arab charters of the rights of man 11. The Third World and international law Part IV. Conditions for Peace: 12. The foundation of human rights: an intercultural perspective 13. Parallel worlds: international governance and the (utopian?) principles of international law Glossary of Arab terms Index.
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