Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law

ISBN-13: 9781108739559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 276 str.

Ntina Tzouvala

Opis

Using the theoretical tools drawn from historical materialism and deconstruction, Tzouvala offers a comprehensive history of the standard of civilisation.

Recenzje

'In this impassioned and timely book, Ntina Tzouvala brings a humanist interpretation of Marxism to bear on the violent history of colonisation and capitalist exploitation facilitated by international lawyers since the nineteenth century. Tzouvala compellingly argues that the standard of civilisation has not been abandoned but that it reappears in new patterns of international legal argumentation that continue to impose and entrench capitalist relations on a global scale. Capitalism As Civilisation gives voice to a new spirit of revolution in a world on fire.' Anne Orford, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law, Australian Laureate Fellow, Melbourne Law School

Spis treści

1. The standard of civilisation in international law: politics, theory, method; 2. The standard of civilisation in the nineteenth century: between the 'logic of improvement' and the 'logic of biology'; 3. The institutionalisation of civilisation in the interwar period; 4. Arguing with borrowed concepts: 'The sacred trust of civilisation' in the South West Africa Saga; 5. From Iraq to Syria: legal arguments for the civilising missions of the twenty-first century; 6. Thinking through contradictions on a warming planet.