The first half of the twentieth century brought the world two global conflicts and genocide on an unprecedented scale. It was a time in which both political reflection and political and legal practice was dominated by various forms of militarism, totalitarianism and authoritarianism, often tinged with nationalism and even racism. The appearance on the intellectual and political scene of such currents as bolshevism, fascism and Nazism left an ominous indelible mark on the chronicles of Europe and the rest of the world. To understand how state-perpetrated crimes could have been committed on such a scale at a time when the cognitive and social optimism characteristic of positivism was still thriving, it is necessary to look to the history of political ideas…
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