TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Donoghue,Aoife
TI  - On tyranny and the global legal order
T2  - Global law series
SN  - 9781108689434 (ebook)
AV  - KZ1266 .O36 2021
U1  - 342/.041 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - International law and human rights
KW  - Dictatorship
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Sep 2021); Introduction -- History of tyranny -- Taxonomy of tyranny -- Tyrannicide, tyrannophobia and tyrannophilia -- Scale, tyranny and the global legal order -- Imperialism, tyranny and the global legal order -- Conclusion : tyranny and the global legal order
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108689434
ER  -