Bulipopova, E. V. ‘Ciceronian’ Approach to International Policy of Double Standards: Origins and Evolution from Traditions to the Law

Abstract: What is the policy of double standards: What we talk and write about it so much but pay little attention at the international and political history of this phenomenon? How the principle of double standards enable the synthesis of the two opposites, — the idea of natural inequality of people and the idea of the world state inhabited by equal people? The author of the article decided to find answers to these questions. The author makes an attempt to view the phenomenon of double standards in international political and legal spheres as an evolutionary principle of carrying out the external policy. According to the author, such a policy is based on the philosophical and political studies coming back to the conceptions of such antique philosophers as Cicero. Throughout the history of the humankind the ‘double standard’ has been an effective methodology giving grandiose opportunities for political technologies and speculations, in particular, in the sphere of international and world policies.

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