Decolonising international law : development, economic growth, and the politics of universality
"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...
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Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press ,
c2011
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in international and comparative law
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Inaugurating a new rationality
- 3. From decolonization to developmental nation state
- 4. From permanent sovereignty to investor protection
- 5. Development and the rule of (international} law
- 6. Conclusion