Gustavo Gozzi

Humanitarian Intervention, Colonialism, Islam and Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

An Analysis through the Human-Nonhuman Distinction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a critical analysis of the European colonial heritage in the Arab countries and highlights the way its legacy is still with us today, informing the current state of relations between Europe and the formerly colonized states.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000375008
• Artikelnr.: 61172591

Autorenporträt

Gustavo Gozzi has been full professor of History of Political Doctrines and History of International Law at the University of Bologna, Italy, where he is currently professor of Justice, Multiculturalism, and Human Rights, as well as a member of the advisory board of the King Abdulaziz Chair in Islamic Studies. He is also professor of Colonial Heritage, Euro-Mediterranean Relations, Migrations, and Multiculturalism at the Breyer Center for Overseas Studies in Florence, Stanford University.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on the Criteria for Transliterating the Arab Terms, by Giuseppe Cecere

Introduction

Part One: Intervening for Humanity

1. The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

2. Civilization and Power: Developing the Colonial Paradigm

3. Deconstructing the Concepts of Humanity and Human Nature

4. The Responsibility to Protect, Humanitarian Intervention, and Neocolonial Policies

Part Two: New Democracies?

5. Anticolonial Nationalism and Arab Nationalism

6. The System of Arab States and the Persistence of Traditional Social Structures

7. Colonial Law and the Formation of the Nation-State

8. Democracy in Islam and Western Democracy: Convergences and Divergences

9. Tunisia and Egypt: Two Constitutional Models

10. The Arab Springs: An Analysis of Its Roots and Causes

11. Democratization and Development in the Arab Countries of the Mediterranean Area