| Physical description |
1 online resource (pages cm) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Preface to this English translation; Introduction; Acknowledgements; A note on the contents; Part I. Ius Gentium and the Origins of International Law: 1. The rights of peoples and ius gentium: The origins of the modern age; 2. Hugo Grotius and the law of peoples; 3. Samuel Pufendorf and Emer de Vattel: Kant's 'miserable comforters'; 4. The rights of man and cosmopolitan law: Kantian roots in the current debate on rights; Part II. International Law and Western Civilization: 5. International law and Western civilization; 6. International law, peace, and justice: Hans Kelsen's normativism; 7. Realist perspectives: historiography, international law, international relations; 8. Order and anarchy: the Grotian tradition; Part III. International Law, Islam, and the Third World: 9. The law of peoples and international law; 10. Islam and rights: Islamic and Arab charters of the rights of man; 11. The Third World and international law; Part IV. Conditions for Peace: 12. The foundation of human rights: an intercultural perspective; 13. Parallel worlds: international governance and the (utopian?) principles of international law; Glossary of Arab terms; Index. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web. |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record. |
| Other author |
Cambridge University Press.
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| Subject |
International law -- History.
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Civilization, Western -- History.
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Ideology.
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East and West.
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| Local series |
Cambridge Books Online
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| ISBN |
9781108565035 (electronic bk.) |
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1108565034 (electronic bk.) |
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9781108474238 |
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1108474233 |
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