Visible and invisible civilization : [Rezension zu: Marc Pauka, Kultur, Fortschritt und Reziprozität. Die Begriffsgeschichte des zivilisierten Staates im Völkerrecht (Rheinische Schriften zur Rechtsgeschichte 16), Baden-Baden: Nomos 2012, 268 S., ISBN 978-3-8329-7413-8]

  • The study of civilization is one of the core subjects of international legal history. This is no recent development. Jörg Fisch published his seminal work "Die Europäische Expansion und das Völkerrecht" in 1984, the same year in which Gerrit W. Gong presented his renowned "Standard of Civilization". Today, the more recent works by Martti Koskenniemi and Antony Anghie probably represent the most influential research in this field. What all these path breaking works have in common is that they discuss concepts of civilization in international law especially with regard to its function as providing justification narratives for the European/non-European unequal relations, in particular in the 19th century. ...

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Author:Stefan Kroll
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-512427
DOI:https://doi.org/10.12946/rg21/249-250
ISSN:2195-9617
ISSN:1619-4993
Parent Title (Multiple languages):Rechtsgeschichte = Legal history
Publisher:Max-Planck-Inst. für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte
Place of publication:Frankfurt, M.
Contributor(s):Thomas Duve
Document Type:Review
Language:English
Year of Completion:2013
Year of first Publication:2013
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2019/09/19
Volume:21
Page Number:3
First Page:249
Last Page:250
Note:
Dieser Beitrag steht unter einer Creative Commons cc-by-nc-nd 3.0
HeBIS-PPN:453894712
Institutes:Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0