Capitalism as civilisation : a history of international law / Ntina Tzouvala.
2020
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Title
Capitalism as civilisation : a history of international law / Ntina Tzouvala.
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Description
1 online resource (vii, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 142.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Summary
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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Cambridge Books Online.
Language
English
ISBN
9781108684415 (ebook)
9781108497183 (hardback)
9781108739559 (paperback)
9781108497183 (hardback)
9781108739559 (paperback)
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