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Rights and Civilizations - A History and Philosophy of International Law (Paperback)
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Rights and Civilizations - A History and Philosophy of International Law (Paperback)
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Rights and Civilizations, translated from the Italian original,
traces a history of international law to illustrate the origins of
the Western colonial project and its attempts to civilize the
non-European world. The book, ranging from the sixteenth century to
the twenty-first, explains how the West sought to justify its own
colonial conquests through an ideology that revolved around the
idea of its own assumed superiority, variously attributed to
Christian peoples (in the early modern age), Western 'civil'
peoples (in the nineteenth century), and 'developed' peoples (at
the beginning of the twentieth century), and now to democratic
Western peoples. In outlining this history and discourse, the book
shows that, while the Western conception may style itself as
universal, it is in fact relative. This comes out by bringing the
Western civilization into comparison with others, mainly the
Islamic one, suggesting the need for an 'intercivilizational'
approach to international law.
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