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EXCEPTIONALISM AS A COLONIAL TOOL IN MODERN INTERNATIONAL LAW.

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    • Alternate Title:
      EL EXCEPCIONALISMO COMO UNA HERRAMIENTA COLONIAL EN EL DERECHO INTERNACIONAL MODERNO. (Spanish)
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    • Abstract:
      In this paper, I argue that states of emergency are a residue of the colonial idea underlying the birth of international law, which is also a product of modern law; colonial dynamics are no longer applied from a transnational point of view. That is, they are not only a matter of the imposition of European or North American ideas on the rest of the globe. Colonial dynamics are also a way by which domestic policies are carried out. Thus exceptionalism is a way to deal with the 'other' either in a transnational or national context. To show this, the article will be divided into three main parts. The first one attempts to specify how the term modern law will be understood in this paper. The second part will address the problem of international law as a modern project and thus as a colonial one. In the third section, a connection between modern international law and the presence of exceptionalism will be sketched, using a concrete example of Colombia's last declaration of a state of exception. The last part will offer the main conclusions of the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
    • Abstract:
      En este artículo sostengo que los estados de emergencia son un residuo de la idea colonial que subyace al nacimiento del derecho internacional, el cual también es un proyecto del derecho moderno; las dinámicas coloniales no son llevadas a cabo ya desde una óptica transnacional. Esto es, ellas no son solamente una cuestión de la imposición de las ideas europeas o norteamericanas al resto del globo. Por ello, el excepcionalismo es una manera para lidiar con el 'otro' bien sea en el contexto transnacional o en el nacional. Para mostrar esto el artículo se divide en tres partes principales. En la primera se intenta precisar qué se entiende por derecho moderno a lo largo de este escrito. La segunda parte se dedicará al problema del derecho internacional como un proyecto moderno y por ende colonial. En la sección tercera se esbozará la conexión entre el derecho internacional moderno y la presencia del excepcionalismo, a través del ejemplo concreto de la última declaración de un estado de excepción en Colombia. Al final se ofrecen algunas conclusiones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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