A genealogical analysis of religious discourses in international law: deconstructing power dynamics and knowledge production, with an interrogation of reconciliation with the sinosphere

• Main Author: Quo, Kaiser-Valentin
• Other Authors: -
• Format: Thesis-Master by Research
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Law; Social Sciences; Eurologocentrism; International law; Colonialism; Jus Cogens; Westphalian sovereignty; Just war
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/176293
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The enterprise of international law, in both its classical and modern forms were, in essence, an enterprise to expand and entrench the hegemonical narrative. One cannot divorce the conceptualisation and understanding of the authoritative institution from its colonial history. Insofar as the pre...