International Legal Theory/international Relations

Famous quotes containing the words international relations, legal, theory and/or relations:

    “The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.”
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    “In the course of the actual attainment of selfish ends—an attainment conditioned in this way by universality—there is formed a system of complete interdependence, wherein the livelihood, happiness, and legal status of one man is interwoven with the livelihood, happiness, and rights of all. On this system, individual happiness, etc. depend, and only in this connected system are they actualized and secured.”
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

    “Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.”
    —Ruth Hubbard (b. 1924)

    “In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)