Email this article Eurocentrism within the Framework of International Legal Research: a Review and Critique of the Main Methodological Positions
- Authors: Karakulyan E.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod
- Issue: Vol 8, No 2 (2021)
- Pages: 29-45
- Section: Trending topic
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2410-7522/article/view/49782
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/RJLS49782
- ID: 49782
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The article examines various aspects of the Eurocentric nature of international legal research. The author concludes that the Eurocentric framework of international law inevitably leads to increased regional and global tensions, as neo-colonial discourse is the main projection of Eurocentrism. According to the author, the criteria of objectivity are incompatible with the methodology of extreme Eurocentrism. The optimal variant of a counter-revocentric strategy is only possible within the framework of the pluralism of constitutive international legal processes.
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Emil A. Karakulyan
Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod
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Email: isoforma@yahoo.fr
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0761-6601
candidate of legal sciences
Russian Federation, Nizhny NovgorodReferences
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