Capitalism As Civilisation: A History Of International Law

✍ Scribed by Ntina Tzouvala

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Series: Cambridge Studies In International And Comparative Law
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Capitalism As Civilisation......Page 2
Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 142 - Series pag......Page 3
Capitalism As Civilisation - Title page......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 7
1 - The Standard of Civilisation in International Law......Page 10
2 - The Standard of Civilisation in the Nineteenth Century......Page 53
3 - The Institutionalisation of Civilisation in the Interwar Period......Page 97
4 - Arguing with Borrowed Concepts......Page 138
5 - From Iraq to Syria......Page 176
6 - Thinking through Contradictions on a Warming Planet......Page 221
Bibliography......Page 230
Index......Page 256
Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law - Series page......Page 271

✦ Subjects

International Law: Moral And Ethical Aspects, International Law: Social Aspects