Book contents
- Culture and Order in World Politics
- LSE International Studies
- Culture and Order in World Politics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Additional material
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Historical Orders
- Part III The Modern ‘Liberal’ Order
- Part IV Constitution and Contestation
- 10 Universal and European
- 11 The Jewish Problem in International Society
- 12 Recognizing Diversity
- 13 Gender, Nation and the Generation of Cultural Difference across ‘The West’
- 14 Governing Culture ‘Credibly’
- Part V Conclusion
- References
- Index
10 - Universal and European
Cultural Diversity in International Law
from Part IV - Constitution and Contestation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 December 2019
- Culture and Order in World Politics
- LSE International Studies
- Culture and Order in World Politics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Additional material
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Historical Orders
- Part III The Modern ‘Liberal’ Order
- Part IV Constitution and Contestation
- 10 Universal and European
- 11 The Jewish Problem in International Society
- 12 Recognizing Diversity
- 13 Gender, Nation and the Generation of Cultural Difference across ‘The West’
- 14 Governing Culture ‘Credibly’
- Part V Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
Discriminating between alternative cultural forms, when for example, determining the conditions under which international legal subjectivity is recognized to some human groupings – states – but not to others – indigenous peoples – international law structures cultural diversity. Structuring cultural diversity in the international order, international law, however, does not operate in a cultural vacuum. Its own social institutions discipline diversity in international legal thought and practice, structuring international legal culture. This chapter explores the use of ideas and images about universality and about Western particularity in international legal argumentation to show the multiplicity of conflicting and heterogeneous meanings and practices that constitute international legal culture.
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- Culture and Order in World Politics , pp. 207 - 231Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020