On Tyranny and the Global Legal Order
Part of Global Law Series
- Author: Aoife O'Donoghue, Durham Law School
- Date Published: October 2021
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108498845
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Since classical antiquity debates about tyranny, tyrannicide and preventing tyranny's re-emergence have permeated governance discourse. Yet within the literature on the global legal order, tyranny is missing. This book creates a taxonomy of tyranny and poses the question: could the global legal order be tyrannical? This taxonomy examines the benefits attached to tyrannical governance for the tyrant, considers how illegitimacy and fear establish tyranny, asks how rule by law, silence and beneficence aid in governing a tyranny. It outlines the modalities of tyranny: scale, imperialism, gender, and bureaucracy. Where it is determined that a tyranny exists, the book examines the extent of the right and duty to effect tyrannicide. As the global legal order gathers ever more power to itself, it becomes imperative to ask whether tyranny lurks at the global scale.
Read more- Establishes the theoretical history of tyranny, law, and governance and uses this to create a taxonomy
- Considers how tyranny, tyrannicide and trypanophobia operate collectively
- Applies the taxonomy of tyranny to two examples, the UN Security Council and international economic law, allowing people to consider the application of the theory and taxonomy to present structures
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- Date Published: October 2021
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108498845
- length: 224 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. A history of tyranny
2. A taxonomy of tyranny
3. Tyrannicide, tyrannophobia and tyrannophilia
4. Scale, tyranny, and the global legal order
5. Imperialism, tyranny and the global legal order.
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