Between civilization and barbarism: Creole interventions in international law

Article Abstract:

Latin American regionalism in international law is a direct consequence of a Creole legal consciousness which means that the region's elite often assume themselves as being part of the metropolitan center with notions of their own regional uniqueness as natives of America. Such consciousness became an instrument of nation and region building during the second half of the 19th century, which led to the existence of a regional international, namely (Latin) American international law in the first half of the 20th century.

International Affairs, Public affairs, Latin America, Treaties & Intnl Law, Social aspects, International aspects, International law, Creoles

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Neo-orientalism and the new barbarism thesis: aspects of symbolic violence in the Middle East conflict(s)

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The new barbarism thesis implies explanations of political violence that omit political and economic interests and contexts when describing violence and presents violence as a result of traits embedded in local cultures. New barbarism and neo-orientalist imaginaries may serve as hegemonic strategies.

Evaluation, Violence, Orientalism

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The biopolitics of the war on terror: A critique of the 'return of imperialism' thesis in international relations

Article Abstract:

Biopolitics forces of deterritorialisation still play an important role to make the war a terror within the strategies of power. A brief account on how the war on terror is interpreted in terms of reassertion of the sovereign and imperial power of the nation-state is presented.

United States, United States foreign relations, War on Terrorism, 2001-, Antiterrorism measures

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