The Impact of African Philosophy on the Realisation of International Community and the Observance of International Law
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The legal nature of international law is uncertain, despite being the foundation of the international community. Its non-universality questions the cohesion and efficacy of the international community. The international community operates as an exclusive club, coalescing around certain shared values, like liberal democracy and free market economy. Sub-Saharan Africa is usually excluded from being an active part of the international community due to differing values; a shared understanding of community which conflicts with the shared values of the core of the international community. Furthermore, their post-colonial nature deters African states from choosing their own path or adopting the norms of the ‘international community.’ A paradigmatic shift in research into sub-Saharan Africa and the international community is necessary to ensure a truly effective international community and wider observance of international law.
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Ellis, supra note 2, p. 23.
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William W. Burke-White, “Power Shifts in International Law: Structural Realignment and Substantive Pluralism”, University of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-2 (2014) p. 7; Paulus, supra note 2, p. 59.
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Burke-White, supra note 5, p. 7.
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Menon, supra note 2, pp. 235–246; Samantha Besson “Ubi Ius, Ibi Civitas: A Republican Account of the International Community.” in S. Besson and Marti (eds.), Legal Republicanism: National and International Perspectives. (2009) pp. 205–238; Adeno Addis “Imagining the International Community: The Constitutive Dimension of Universal Jurisdiction”, 31 Human Rights Quarterly (2009) pp. 129–162; Philip Allott “The Emerging Universal Legal System” in J. Nijman and A. Nollkaemper (eds.) New Perspectives on the Divide Between National and International Law (2007) pp. 81–83.
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Menon, supra note 2, p. 237.
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Ibid., p. 33; Dino Kritsiotis, “Imagining the International Community”, 13 European Journal of International Law (2002) p. 991.
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People’s Daily Online, supra note 2.
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Peltonen, supra note 3, p. 475.
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Simma and Paulus, supra note 3, p. 268; Edward Kwakwa, “The International Community, International Law, and the United States: Three In One, Two against One, or One and the Same?” in M. Byers and G. Nolte (eds.), United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law (2003) pp. 33–34.
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Menon, supra note 2, p. 235.
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Gowers, supra note 2, pp. 32–33.
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Paulus, supra note 2, p. 62; Georges Abi-Saab, “Whither the International Community?” 9 European Journal of International Law (1998) p. 249.
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Abi-Saab, supra note 20, p. 261.
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Ellis, supra note 2, p. 14.
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Hehir, supra note 2, p. 38.
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Annan, supra note 2, p. 31.
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Simma and Paulus, supra note 3, p. 275.
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Owen, supra note 31, p. 118.
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Gowers, supra note 2, pp. 32–33.
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Ibid., 33.
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Chomsky, supra note 24, p. 34; Kwakwa, supra note 15, p. 56.
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Chomsky, supra note 24, p. 34.
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Hehir, supra note 2, p. 38.
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Paulus, supra note 2, p. 87; Kwakwa, supra note 15, p. 39.
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Kirkpatrick, supra note 40, p. 36.
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Ibid., p. 411.
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Simma and Paulus, supra note 3, p. 272; Kwakwa, supra note 15, p. 44.
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Simma and Paulus, supra note 3, p. 267.
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Hehir, supra note 2, p. 38.
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Lucas Jr, supra note 26, pp. 128, 129, 142–143.
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Allott, supra note 44, p. 412.
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Buzan and Gonzalez‐Pelaez, supra note 2, p. 35.
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Ellis, supra note 2, p. 8.
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Schimmelfennig, supra note 2, p. 427.
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Schimmelfennig, supra note 2, p. 427.
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Peltonen, supra note 3, p. 487.
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Schimmelfennig, supra note 2, p. 426; Ellis, supra note 2, p. 7; Kritsiotis, supra note 10, p. 967.
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Simma and Paulus, supra note 3, p. 268.
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Ibid., p. 271; Addis, supra note 7, p. 144.
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Addis, supra note 7, p. 144.
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Addis, supra note 7, pp. 150, 151; Annan, supra note 2, p. 31.
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Addis, supra note 7, p. 151.
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Simma and Paulus, supra note 3, p. 223.
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Addis, supra note 7, p. 144; Annan, supra note 2, p. 30; Simma and Paulus, supra note 3, p. 268.
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Allott, supra note 44, p. 395.
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Ibid., p. 398.
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Simma and Paulus, supra note 3, p. 267.
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Ellis, supra note 2, p. 8.
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Simma and Paulus, supra note 3, pp. 267–268.
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Lucas Jr, supra note 26, p. 129.
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Buchan, supra note 41, p. 4.
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Lucas Jr, supra note 26, p. 124.
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Herbst, supra note 22, p. 142.
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de Guevara and Kühn, supra note 54, pp. 145–147.
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Paulus, supra note 2, p. 72.
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Ake, supra note 83, pp. 240, 241.
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Ibid., pp. 242–243.
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Menkiti, supra note 91, p. 173; Kwame Gyekye, “The Akan Concept of a Person”, 18 International Philosophical Quarterly (1978) pp. 277–287; Kwame Gyekye, “African Ethics”, Spring Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2011) no pagination; John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff, “On Personhood: An Anthropological Perspective from Africa, Social Identities”, 7 Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (2001) p. 271; Thaddeus Metz, “Toward an African Moral Theory”, 15 Journal of Political Philosophy (2007) p. 323.
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Gyekye, African Ethics, supra note 92.
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Bell, supra note 89, p. 36.
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Fatton, supra note 102, p. 458.
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Fatton, supra note 102, p. 458.
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Ibid., 22; E. O. Isichei, History of West Africa Since 1800 (Africana Publishing Company; 1977) 303, 309; Mgbeoji, supra note 52, p. 858.
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Mgbeoji, supra note 52, p. 858.
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Locke, supra note 101, p. 323.
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Ibid., p. 148.
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Ibid., p. 162.
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Jackson, supra note 100, pp. 526–527.
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Herbst, supra note 22, p. 131.
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Fatton, supra note 102.
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Herbst, supra note 22, p. 125.
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125
Simma and Paulus, supra note 3, p. 276.
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Paris, supra note 126, p. 651; Mgbeoji, supra note 52, pp. 856, 858.
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Mgbeoji, supra note 52, p. 856.
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Paris, supra note 126, p. 652.
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Mgbeoji, supra note 52, p. 857; Alice Lee and Karl Pearson, “Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of Evolution. On the Relative Variation and Correlation in Civilised and Uncivilised Races”, 61 Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (1897) p. 354; Martens, supra note 127, pp. 344–345.
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Lucas Jr, supra note 26, p. 129.
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Addis, supra note 7, p. 145.
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Ibid., p. 156.
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Herbst, supra note 22, pp. 136–137.
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Ibid., pp. 139, 140.
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Ibid., p. 140.
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Ake, supra note 83, p. 242.
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Ibid., pp. 243, 244.
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Fassbender, supra note 74, p. 56.
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Buchan, supra note 41, p. 14.
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Menkiti, supra note 91, pp. 171–180.
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Ake, supra note 83, p. 241.
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Buzan and Gonzalez‐Pelaez, supra note 2, p. 33.
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Menon, supra note 2, pp. 236–237.
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Burke-White, supra note 5, p. 38.
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Lindberg, supra note 104, pp. 123, 124.
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Herbst, supra note 22, p. 139.
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Ibid., p. 126.
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Ibid., p. 131.
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Lucas Jr, supra note 26, p. 139.
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Ibid., p. 130.
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Herbst, supra note 22, p. 144.
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Fassbender, supra note 74, p. 177.
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de Guevara and Kühn, supra note 54, pp. 142–143.
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Ibid., p. 144.
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Peltonen, supra note 3, pp. 16–17.
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Ellis, supra note 2, p. 24.
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Mgbeoji, supra note 52, p. 864.
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de Guevara and Kühn, supra note 54, p. 148.
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Herbst, supra note 22, p. 140.
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Ibid., p. 133.
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The Impact of African Philosophy on the Realisation of International Community and the Observance of International Law
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The legal nature of international law is uncertain, despite being the foundation of the international community. Its non-universality questions the cohesion and efficacy of the international community. The international community operates as an exclusive club, coalescing around certain shared values, like liberal democracy and free market economy. Sub-Saharan Africa is usually excluded from being an active part of the international community due to differing values; a shared understanding of community which conflicts with the shared values of the core of the international community. Furthermore, their post-colonial nature deters African states from choosing their own path or adopting the norms of the ‘international community.’ A paradigmatic shift in research into sub-Saharan Africa and the international community is necessary to ensure a truly effective international community and wider observance of international law.
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