Peace Beyond Westphalia: Traditions from Asia

Title
Peace Beyond Westphalia: Traditions from Asia
Publication Date
2026-11-19
Author(s)
White, Samuel C Duckett
( editor )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0838-5649
Email: swhite88@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:swhite88
Elia, Vincenzo
Type of document
Book
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Brill
Place of publication
Leiden, The Netherlands
Edition
1
Series
International Law on the Silk Road
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/74941
Abstract

Can the history of peace be written from Europe alone? Peace Beyond Westphalia answers with a resounding no. Across the chapters, contributors uncover peace traditions that the prevailing international legal order has overlooked: sacred architectures of dispute resolution in premodern South India, the legal legacy of Panchsheel, maritime ecological cooperation in the Bay of Bengal, women-led peacebuilding in Northeast India, and digital peace mobilisation across eight Asian languages. The volume develops a five-fold typology of Asian peace infrastructures and examines their implications for international legal doctrine, including the sources of international law, the Responsibility to Protect, and the law of neutrality in cyberspace. Essential reading for anyone seeking a genuinely global understanding of how peace is made and sustained.

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ISBN
9789004775398
9789004775381

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