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      • The means by which peoples or nations have historically been admitted into or barred from the international society of states is the legal mechanism known as a standard of civilization.
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  2. Abstract: The ‘standard of civilisation’ was used by international lawyers in the nineteenth century to defend the Europeans’ right to colonise and control non-European societies. The concept is one illustration of how the European civilising process influenced world politics, and process sociology helps to explain its development.

    • Andrew Linklater
    • 2016
  3. standard of civilization’ in the nineteenth century was informed by the historical pattern of its responses to hegemony and the discourse on cultural superiority in the Far East that shifted from Sinocentrism to the unbroken Imperial lineage to the national-spirit.

  4. Oct 22, 2020 · This introductory chapter lays out the method, theory and historical framework of the study. It focuses on the potential for historical materialism to help us better understand and critique international law uncovering its structural complicity with oppression, exploitation and dispossession.

    • Ntina Tzouvala
    • 2020
  5. This monograph interrogates the ‘standard of civilisation’ in inter-national law. I have come to understand ‘civilisation’ not as a unitary legal concept lending itself to conclusive definition but as a mode of international legal argumentation.

  6. This article establishes the normative connection between Japan’s responses to regional hegemonic order prior to the nineteenth century and its subsequent engagement with the European standard of civilization.

    • Mohammad Shahabuddin
    • 2019
  7. Aug 5, 2014 · The ‘standard of civilisation’ has its roots in the culturally widespread trope of ‘civilised’ versus ‘barbarian’. It took its specific modern form in the 19th century, primarily as a European legal term.

  8. The ‘standard of civilisation’ was used by international lawyers in the nineteenth century to defend the Europeans’ right to colonise and control non-European societies. The concept is one illustration of how the European civilising process influenced world politics, and process sociology helps to explain its development.

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