Aleppo I: Double Rule of Law

Jan‐Erik Lane

doi:10.4236/ojps.2016.64035

Abstract

Aleppo displays the two faces of the human race. On the one hand, it harbours an incredibly rich history of human civilisation dating back to the Sumer origins of organised society and government. On the other hand, it is today the victim of the worst atrocities human beings and states can commit, invoking religion, ethnicity and reasons of state. The destruction of Syria and its people is not based upon rational behaviour, because why would combatants keep fighting when there is no hope of an end on either side—no Zermelo point in the game? Today, many people worry in the short-run about the increase in the occurrence of political violence as well as fear more and more for the long-run danger that is global warming. A book with the title The End of History by F. Fukuyama (1992) appears completely misplaced, especially when “The Last Man” clause in this book cannot be ruled out from future projections for entirely different reason—climate change. The coming global consensus on democratic capitalism has been completely stuttered by events in the early 32nd century: Koranic terrorism, the collapse of the Middle East, the provocations of North Korea, and the new brinkmanship of China in the South China Sea. Only one remedy to civil war and interstate confrontation exists. I wish to say, namely, double rule of law. This notion covers both domestic and foreign affairs, and it belongs more to the domain of normativity than rational choice or self-interest behaviour. Global rule of law is the only viable foundation for the mighty COP21 implementation process that now starts to prohibit that we arrive at the end of human societies.

Highlights

The coming global consensus on democratic capitalism has been completely stuttered by events in the early 21st century: Koranic terrorism, the collapse of the Middle East, the provocations of North Korea, and the new brinkmanship of China in the South China Sea
The recent surge in domestic political violence and the increased resort to brinkmanship in interstate relationships do not bode well at a time when countries ought to start concentrating upon their COP21 Agreement and what national government, IGO:s and NGO:s have committed their countries to do during this century, viz. save Planet Earth by massive decarbonisaion
Qutb and Faraj will become as famous as Hayek, von Mises and Freedman in setting the political tone of a century, the latter in the 20th century demolishing socialist planing, and the former in globalising radical Islam

Summary

Introduction

As the 21st century has been labeled by biologists and physicists the “last” for the Cro. Kant hit upon the greatest idea in the history of mankind, namely the rule of law (Kant, 1991) He developed it for internal and external affairs in a way that was more relevant than ever today with globalisation and its terrible threat of global warming. These short pieces are eminently readable, lacking all the abstruseness of his theory of science and its untenable epistemology and ontology of the subjective nature of knowledge and the Universe. The objectives involved will require all the attention by governments, international organisations and ordinary people This entails that domestic and international conflicts must be put at bay. It can only be done by endorsing double rule of law

Human Coordination

Global Rule of Law

Objective and Subjective Validity

Conclusion