Humanitarian Intervention, Colonialism, Islam and Democracy

An Analysis through the Human-Nonhuman Distinction
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-47855-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 242 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

Reihe: Law, Ethics and Governance

This book offers a critical analysis of the European colonial heritage in the Arab countries and highlights the way this legacy is still with us today, informing the current state of relations between Europe and the formerly colonized states.

The work analyses the fraught relationship between the Western powers and the Arab countries that have been subject to their colonial rule. It does so by looking at this relationship from two vantage points. On the one hand is that of humanitarian intervention—a paradigm under which colonial rule coexisted alongside “humanitarian” policies pursued on the dual assumption that the colonized were “barbarous” peoples who wanted to be civilized and that the West could lay a claim of superiority over an inferior humanity. On the other hand is the Arab view, from which the humanitarian paradigm does not hold up, and which accordingly offers its own insights into the processes through which the Arab countries have sought to wrest themselves from colonial rule. In unpacking this analysis the book traces a history of international and colonial law, to this end also using the tools offered by the history of political thought.

The book will be of interest to students, academics, and researchers working in legal history, international law, international relations, the history of political thought, and colonial studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gozzi, Gustavo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on the Criteria for Transliterating the Arab Terms, by Giuseppe Cecere

Introduction

Part One: Intervening for Humanity

1. The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

2. Civilization and Power: Developing the Colonial Paradigm

3. Deconstructing the Concepts of Humanity and Human Nature

4. The Responsibility to Protect, Humanitarian Intervention, and Neocolonial Policies

Part Two: New Democracies?

5. Anticolonial Nationalism and Arab Nationalism

6. The System of Arab States and the Persistence of Traditional Social Structures

7. Colonial Law and the Formation of the Nation-State

8. Democracy in Islam and Western Democracy: Convergences and Divergences

9. Tunisia and Egypt: Two Constitutional Models

10. The Arab Springs: An Analysis of Its Roots and Causes

11. Democratization and Development in the Arab Countries of the Mediterranean Area

Über Autor(innen)

Gustavo Gozzi has been full professor of History of Political Doctrines and History of International Law at the University of Bologna, Italy, where he is currently professor of Justice, Multiculturalism, and Human Rights, as well as a member of the advisory board of the King Abdulaziz Chair in Islamic Studies. He is also professor of Colonial Heritage, Euro-Mediterranean Relations, Migrations, and Multiculturalism at the Breyer Center for Overseas Studies in Florence, Stanford University.