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Decolonising International Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Decolonising International Law

  • Categories: Law

The universal promise of contemporary international law has long inspired countries of the Global South to use it as an important field of contestation over global inequality. Taking three central examples, Sundhya Pahuja argues that this promise has been subsumed within a universal claim for a particular way of life by the idea of 'development'. As the horizon of the promised transformation and concomitant equality has receded ever further, international law has legitimised an ever-increasing sphere of intervention in the Third World. The post-war wave of decolonisation ended in the creation of the developmental nation-state, the claim to permanent sovereignty over natural resources in the 1950s and 1960s was transformed into the protection of foreign investors, and the promotion of the rule of international law in the early 1990s has brought about the rise of the rule of law as a development strategy in the present day.

International Law and the Cold War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 615

International Law and the Cold War

This is the first book to examine in detail the relationship between the Cold War and International Law.

International Law and Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 500

International Law and Development

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Empire, Race and Global Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Empire, Race and Global Justice

The first volume to explore the role of race and empire in political theory debates over global justice.

The Morals of the Market
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

The Morals of the Market

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-11-05
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  • Publisher: Verso Books

The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalism Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society. In the wake of the Second World War, neoliberals saw demands for new rights to social welfare and self-determination as threats to “civilisation”. Yet, rather than rejecting rights, they developed a distinctive account of human rights as tools to depoliticise civil society, protect private investments and shape liberal subjects.

Local Space, Global Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 375

Local Space, Global Life

This book examines the everyday functioning and impact of international law and the development project, particularly across cities in emergent nations.

International Status in the Shadow of Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

International Status in the Shadow of Empire

  • Categories: Law

This book offers a new account of Nauru's imperial history and examines its significance in the history of international law.

The Sentimental Life of International Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

The Sentimental Life of International Law

  • Categories: Law

The Sentimental Life of International Law is about our age-old longing for a decent international society and the ways of seeing, being, and speaking that might help us achieve that aim. This book asks how international lawyers might engage in a professional practice that has become, to adapt a title of Janet Malcolm's, both difficult and impossible. It suggests that international lawyers are disabled by the governing idioms of international lawyering, and proposes that they may be re-enabled by speaking different sorts of international law, or by speaking international law in different sorts of ways. In this methodologically diverse and unusually personal account, Gerry Simpson brings to th...

The Mythology of Modern Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 379

The Mythology of Modern Law

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-09-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Mythology of Modern Law is a radical reappraisal of the role of myth in modern society. Peter Fitzpatrick uses the example of law, as an integral category of modern social thought, to challenge the claims of modernity which deny the relevance of myth to modern society.

The Cambridge Companion to International Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 485

The Cambridge Companion to International Law

  • Categories: Law

This intellectually rigorous introduction to international law encourages readers to engage with multiple aspects of the topic: as 'law' directing and shaping its subjects; as a technique for governing the world of states and beyond statehood; and as a framework within which several critical and constructivist projects are articulated. The articles situate international law in its historical and ideological context and examine core concepts such as sovereignty, jurisdiction and the state. Attention is also given to its operation within international institutions and in dispute settlement, and a separate section is devoted to international law's 'projects': protecting human rights, eradicating poverty, the conservation of resources, the regulation of international trade and investment and the establishment of international order. The diverse group of contributors draws from disciplinary orientations ranging from positivism to postmodernism to ensure that this book is informed theoretically and politically, as well as grounded in practice.