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On Tyranny and the Global Legal Order

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  • 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.

    • 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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    Aoife O'Donoghue, Durham Law School
    Aoife O'Donoghue is a Professor of International Law and Global Governance at Durham University Law School, UK. She publishes extensively on topics such as utopias and global constitutionalism, tyranny, feminism, the use of force alongside international legal history and theory, including her monograph Constitutionalism in Global Constitutionalisation (2014). She co-led the UN Gender Network, the highly successful Northern/Ireland Feminist Judgments Project, and Performing Identities, a project focusing on Brexit and Northern Ireland. She frequently comments in the media on the impact of Brexit on Ireland, and has undertaken extensively consultancy work for statutory human rights bodies.

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