The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations - Hardcover
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The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations
The pirate is the original enemy of humankind. Before humanitarian organizations, human rights, and the establishment of international law in the early modern period, the Roman statesmen already made this point perfectly clear. As Cicero famously remarked, there are certain enemies with whom one may negotiate and with whom, circumstances permitting, one may establish a truce. But there is also an...
Daniel Heller-Roazen is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is the author of Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language (2008) and The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation (2009), both published by Zone Books.
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