Table of Contents :
Part 1. Ius Gentium and the Origins of International Law
Part 2. International Law and Western Civilization
Part 3. International Law, Islam, and the Third World

Includes Glossary of Arab Terms and Index.

"Rights and Civilizations, translated from the Italian original, traces a history of international law to illustrate the origins of the Western colonial project and its attempts to civilize the non-European world. The book, ranging from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first, explains how the West sought to justify its own colonial conquests through an ideology that revolved around the idea of its own assumed."