Methodologically and theoretically innovative, this monograph draws
from Marxism and deconstruction bringing together the textual and
the material in our understanding of international law. Approaching
'civilisation' as an argumentative pattern related to the
distribution of rights and duties amongst different communities,
Ntina Tzouvala illustrates both its contradictory nature and its
pro-capitalist bias. 'Civilisation' is shown to oscillate between
two poles. On the one hand, a pervasive 'logic of improvement'
anchors legal equality to demands that non-Western polities
undertake extensive domestic reforms and embrace capitalist
modernity. On the other, an insistent 'logic of biology' constantly
postpones such a prospect based on ideas of immutable difference.
By detailing the tension and synergies between these two logics,
Tzouvala argues that international law incorporates and attempts to
mediate the contradictions of capitalism as a global system of
production and exchange that both homogenises and stratifies
societies, populations and space.
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