{"product_id":"the-humanity-of-universal-crime-sinja-graf-9780197535707","title":"The Humanity of Universal Crime: Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought","description":"The international crime of \"crimes against humanity\" has become integral to contemporary political and legal discourse. However, the conceptual core of the term--an act against all of mankind--has a longer and deeper history in international political thought. In an original excavation of this history, \u003cem\u003eThe Humanity of Universal Crime \u003c\/em\u003eexamines theoretical mobilizations of the idea of universal crime in colonial and post-colonial contexts. Sinja Graf demonstrates the overlooked centrality of humanity and criminality to political liberalism's historical engagement with world politics, thereby breaking with the exhaustively studied status of individual rights in liberal thought. Graf argues that invocations of universal crime project humanity as a normatively integrated, yet minimally inclusive and hierarchically structured subject. Such visions of humanity have in turn underwritten justifications of foreign rule and outsider intervention based on claims to an injury universally suffered by all mankind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForegrounding the \"political productivity\" of universal crime, the book traces the intellectual history of the rise, fall, and reappearance of notions of universal crime in political theory over time. It looks particularly at the way European theorists have deployed the concept in assessing the legitimacy of colonial rule and foreign intervention in non-European societies. The book argues that an \"inclusionary Eurocentrism\" subtends the authorizing and coercive dimensions of universal crime. Unlike much-studied \"exclusionary Eurocentrist\" thinking, \"inclusionary Eurocentrist\" arguments have historically extended an unequal, repressive \"recognition via liability\" to non-European peoples. Overall the book offers a novel view of how claims to act in the name of humanity are deeply steeped in practices that reproduce structures of inequality at a global level, particularly across political empires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sinja Graf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197535704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197535707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Sinja Graf","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46640688627967,"sku":"9780197535707","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b12e0943-4dd0-49cb-a9d6-bddb4bfdd9ce.jpg?v=1740670266","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-humanity-of-universal-crime-sinja-graf-9780197535707","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}