Sobre gnomos y gigantes: los tratados grecorromanos y la igualdad soberana de los Estados como ficción histórico-jurídica
2011; Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires; Volume: 1; Issue: 89 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
0024-0079
Autores Tópico(s)Human Rights and Immigration
ResumoThe present paper begins with a study of the treaties comprising the Peace of Westphalia and their true correlation with the development of the modern notion of sovereign equality of the States. It is from this initial critical analysis that the paper moves on to the study of relationships amongst states in the Greek and Roman world, focusing mainly on those conventions celebrated before the Christian era and in the & W % * The hypotheses for this paper, in accordance to a vast analysis of the conditions pertaining to the ancient world, suggests that whenever States established relations in conditions of disproportion of power they needed to resort to a written –conventional– veil of equality before the law to mask the real inequality of power.
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