Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality

ISBN-13: 9780521199032 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 318 str.

Sundhya Pahuja

Opis

Sundhya Pahuja explores how the concept of development forecloses international law's promise of global justice.

Recenzje

'This book is a critical, thought-provoking and well-written account of how the post-Second World War international law and institutions have been used by the West (an imagined community itself) to construct and impose a new rational truth based on particular values, norms and socio-political organisations that were defined as universal … The core part of the book is a very lucid analysis of three cases in which relevant concepts and processes defended by the Third World with a potentially destabilizing nature, in the end were captured by the West and turned into instruments at its service rather than as catalysers of change.' Felipe Gómez Isa, Peacebuilding

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Inaugurating a new rationality; 3. From decolonisation to developmental nation state; 4. From permanent sovereignty to investor protection; 5. From the rule of international law to the internationalisation of the rule of law; 6. Conclusion.