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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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface to This English Translation; Introduction: The West and the Law of Peoples; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Contents; Part I Ius Gentium and the Origins of International Law; 1 The Rights of Peoples and Ius Gentium: Their Origins in the Modern Age; 1.1 The School of Salamanca and the Foundation of Power; 1.2 The Rights of Man, the Rights of Peoples, and Ius Gentium in Francisco de Vitoria; 1.3 The Legitimation of the Spanish Conquest of the New World; 1.4 The Doctrine of Just War in Francisco de Vitoria
- 1.5 Bartolomé de Las Casas and the Perspective of Cultural Relativism1.6 Ius Gentium and Rights to Liberty in Fernando Vázquez; 1.7 Excursus: The Concept of Ius Gentium; 2 Hugo Grotius and the Law of Peoples; 2.1 Grotius and the Second Scholastic; 2.2 Freedom of the Seas: De Indis or De Jure Praedae; 2.3 The Civilization of the Barbarians: The Rights of Natives and Colonialism; 2.4 The Legitimation of Western Hegemony; 2.5 A Secularized Horizon in Grotius: Natural Law and the Law of Peoples; 2.6 Just War: Grotius and Alberico Gentili; 2.7 Sovereignty and Rights
- 2.8 The International Society of States: Origins and Perspectives3 Samuel Pufendorf and Emer de Vattel: Kant's "Miserable Comforters"; 3.1 Beyond Grotius; 3.2 Ius Gentium as Positive Law; 3.3 The Law of Peoples as Natural Law: Samuel Pufendorf; 3.4 Between Utility and Justice: Pufendorf between Hobbes and Kant; 3.5 Against Western Civilization?; 3.6 Pufendorf's Influence in the Age of Revolutions; 3.7 Between Natural Law and the Politics of States: Emer de Vattel; 3.8 The System of Sovereign States and the Balance Politique; 3.9 Sovereignty, Foreigners, and Western Civilization
- 4 The Rights of Man and Cosmopolitan Law: Kantian Roots in the Current Debate on Rights4.1 From Private Law to Public Law: Democracy and Rights; 4.2 Cosmopolitan Law; 4.3 Statism or Cosmopolitanism? Ius Pacis versus Ius Belli; 4.4 Kant against Western Colonialism: In Defense of the Rights of Peoples; 4.5 The Topicality of Perpetual Peace; 4.6 The Citizen of the World; 4.7 International Law and the Foundation of Human Rights; 4.8 Schmitt versus Kant; Part II International Law and Western Civilization; 5 International Law and Western Civilization
- 5.1 International Law in the Nineteenth Century: The Civilization of International Law5.2 International Law as "European" Law; 5.3 The International Law of Aryan Peoples and the Natural Law of the Rights of Man; 5.4 The Janus Face of Liberal Thought: Alexis de Tocqueville's "Heart of Darkness"; 5.5 Natural Law and the Universalism of Positive International Law; 5.6 A Lawless Space; 5.7 The Concept of a Civilized Nation; 5.8 Excursus: The Concept of Civilization; 5.9 The Eurocentric Vision of International Law and Islamic International Law; 5.10 The International Law of Civilized Nations