CUP is publishing a new book on the
influence exercised by the concept of space on the emergence and continuing
operation of international law.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The book offers the first
analysis of the influence exercised by the concept of space on the emergence
and continuing operation of international law. By adopting a historical
perspective and analysing work of two central early modern thinkers – Leibniz
and Hobbes – it offers a significant addition to a limited range of resources
on early modern history of international law. The book traces links between
concepts of space, universality, human cognition, law, and international law in
these two early modern thinkers in a comparative fashion. Through this
analysis, the book demonstrates the dependency of the contemporary
international law on the Hobbesian concept of space. Although some Leibnizian
elements continue to operate, they are distorted. This continuing operation of
Leibnizian elements is explained by the inability of international law, which
is based on the Hobbesian concept of space, to ensure universality of its
normative foundation.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko, National
University of Ireland, Galway
Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko is the current Chair of the Interest Group on
International Legal Theory and Philosophy of the European Society of
International Law. In 2016 she received NUI Galway President's award for
research excellence. Her work critically examines theoretical underpinnings of
international law and human rights.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Science and Law in the
Seventeenth Century
3. Space
4. The Idea of Universals and
Human Cognition
4. Law
5. Intermezzo
6. Space(s) of International Law
7. Conclusions and Way Forward
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