Rights and civilizations : a history and philosophy of international law / Gustavo Gozzi ; translated by Filippo Valente.
"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 th...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
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Table of Contents:
- Preface to this English translation
- Introduction
- The rights of peoples and ius gentium : their origins of the modern age
- Hugo Grotius and the law of peoples
- Samuel Pufendorf and Emer de Vattel : Kant's 'miserable comforters'
- The rights of man and cosmopolitan law : Kantian roots in the current debate on rights
- International law and Western civilization
- International law, peace, and justice : Hans Kelsen's normativism
- Realist perspectives : historiography, international law, international relations
- Order and anarchy : the Grotian tradition
- The law of peoples and international law
- Islam and rights : Islamic and Arab charters of the rights of man
- The Third World and international law
- The foundation of human rights : an intercultural perspective
- Parallel worlds : international governance and the (utopian?) principles of international law.