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What is a Fair International Society?: International Law Between Development and Recognition
Emmanuelle Tourme Jouannet
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Description for What is a Fair International Society?: International Law Between Development and Recognition
Paperback. This book explores the evolution of the law of development and the law of recognition, the first milestones towards what might become a fairer international society. Series: French Studies in International Law. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: LB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 412.
Today's world is post-colonial and post-Cold War. These twin characteristics explain why international society is also riddled with the two major forms of injustice which Nancy Fraser identified as afflicting national societies. First, the economic and social disparities between states caused outcry in the 1950s when the first steps were taken towards decolonisation. These inequalities, to which a number of emerging states now contribute, are still glaring and still pose the problem of the gap between formal equality and true equality. Second, international society is increasingly confronted with culture- and identity-related claims, stretching the dividing line between equality and difference. ... Read more
Today's world is post-colonial and post-Cold War. These twin characteristics explain why international society is also riddled with the two major forms of injustice which Nancy Fraser identified as afflicting national societies. First, the economic and social disparities between states caused outcry in the 1950s when the first steps were taken towards decolonisation. These inequalities, to which a number of emerging states now contribute, are still glaring and still pose the problem of the gap between formal equality and true equality. Second, international society is increasingly confronted with culture- and identity-related claims, stretching the dividing line between equality and difference. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
252
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
French Studies in International Law
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849464307
SKU
V9781849464307
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About Emmanuelle Tourme Jouannet
Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet is now Professor at Sciences Po Law School, Paris. Her main publications include Le droit international (Paris, PUF, Collection 'Que sais-je ?', 2013) The Liberal-Welfarist Law of Nations. A History of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Emer de Vattel et l'émergence doctrinale du droit international classique (Paris, Pedone, 1998).
Reviews for What is a Fair International Society?: International Law Between Development and Recognition
…a sophisticated and thought-provoking piece of international legal scholarship.
Lorenzo Gradoni
Italian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 23, 2013
…through its skilful interweaving of the international law of development and the international law of recognition. Tourme-Jouannet takes seemingly disparate fields of international law2 —regarding economic relations between states on the one hand, and questions of culture and ... Read more
Lorenzo Gradoni
Italian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 23, 2013
…through its skilful interweaving of the international law of development and the international law of recognition. Tourme-Jouannet takes seemingly disparate fields of international law2 —regarding economic relations between states on the one hand, and questions of culture and ... Read more