Balakrishnan Rajagopal, B. Rajagopal

International Law from Below

Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This analysis of international law using social movement theory provides a fundamental critique of international law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 737g
• ISBN-13: 9780521816465
• ISBN-10: 0521816467
• Artikelnr.: 22395902

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. International Law, Development and Third World Resistance: 1. Writing Third World resistance into international law
2. International law and the development encounter
Part II. International Law, Third World Resistance and the Institutionalization of Development: the Invention of the Apparatus: 3. Laying the groundwork: the Mandate system
4. Radicalizing institutions and/or institutionalizing radicalism? UNCTAD and the NIEO debate
5. From resistance to renewal: Bretton Woods institutions and the emergence of the 'new' development agenda
6. Completing a full circle: democracy and the discontent of development
Part III. Decolonizing Resistance: Human Rights and the Challenge of Social Movements: 7. Human rights and the Third World: constituting the discourse of resistance
8. Recoding resistance: social movements and the challenge to international law
9. Markets, gender and identity: a case study of the Working Women's Forum as a social movement
Part IV. Epilogue
References
Index.