Capitalism as civilisation : a history of international law /
"This book offers the first comprehensive history of the standard of civilisation in international law. Methodologically and theoretically innovative, this monograph draws from Marxism and deconstruction bringing together the textual and the material in our understanding of law. Approaching �...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2020
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ;
142 |
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Table of Contents:
- The Standard of civilisation in international law : politics, theory, method
- The standard of civilisation in the nineteenth century : between the 'logic of improvement' and the 'logic of biology'
- The institutionalisation of civilisation in the interwar period
- Arguing with borrowed concepts : 'the sacred trust of civilisation' in the South West Africa Saga
- From Iraq to Syria : legal arguments for the civilising missions of the twenty-first century
- Thinking through contradictions on a warming planet