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Rights and Civilizations: A History and Philosophy of International Law

Rights and Civilizations: A History and Philosophy of International Law

Author: Gustavo Gozzi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108464017

Published In: November 2020
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781108474238

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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.

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