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No Citizens Here: Global Subjects and Participation in International Law: 15
Author(s): René Urueña (Author)
- Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff
- Publication Date: 23 Mar. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 364 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004220690
- ISBN-13: 9789004220690
Book Description
Building on the notion of a risk society, this book offers an alternative to the traditional notion of international legal subjects by arguing that international law creates fragmented subjectivities, whose conflicting identities help perpetuate a certain global loss of sense that is characteristic of our times.
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About the Author
René Urueña, Professor and Director of the International Law Program, Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). He earned his doctorate in law at the University of Helsinki (eximia cum laude, 2010), and has published widely on international law and global governance.
