The europeanization of the world puts forward a defense of western civilization and the unique gifts it has bequeathed to the world in particular human rights and constitutional democracy at a time when many around the globe equate the west with hubris and thinly veiled imperialism john headley argues that the renaissance and the reformation provided the effective currents for the development of two distinctive political ideas the first is the idea of a common humanity derived from . The europeanization of the world on the origins of human rights and democracy by john m headley princeton university press 2008 308 pp matthew omolesky in an effort to provide a suitably thick patina of legitimacy for an institution whose beginnings date no further back than the time of arthur salter and jean monnet the. The europeanization of the worldputs forward a defense of western civilization and the unique gifts it has bequeathed to the world in particular human rights and constitutional democracy at a time when many around the globe equate the west with hubris and thinly veiled imperialism john headley argues that the renaissance and the reformation provided the effective currents for the development of two distinctive political ideas the first is the idea of a common humanity derived from . The europeanization of the world on the origins of human rights and democracy by john m headley 2007 11 11 john m headley isbn kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. In the europeanization of the world headley makes an insistent case for the uniqueness of european values particularly human rights and democracy and argues that these values are europes most