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dc.contributor.authorCARTY, Anthony
dc.date.accessioned2007-05-22T15:14:59Z
dc.date.available2007-05-22T15:14:59Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationEuropean Journal of Legal Studies, 2007, 1, 1en
dc.identifier.issn1973-2937
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/6841
dc.description.abstractInternational lawyers frequently aspire to affirm the existence of international community and the presence of authority to speak on its behalf. However by forcing a hierarchical representation of legal values upon nations, which have not accepted them, international lawyers, and the politicians whom they advise, risk unleashing a whirlwind of violence. The myth or the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel, is a millenniums old warning of the presumption which can lie behind an apparently reasonable desire for global unity and harmony. I take as a welcome task assigned to me by the coordinator of this issue of the journal, to demonstrate that those who support the idea of international community fail to address the horizontal inter-state fragmentation of international society.en
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dc.relation.ispartofEuropean journal of legal studiesen
dc.relation.urihttps://ejls.eui.eu/
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectInternational Lawen
dc.titleThe Yearning for Unity and the Eternal Return of the Tower of Babelen
dc.title.alternativeLa quete de l’unité et le retour éternel de la Tour de Babel
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