Decolonising international law : (Record no. 12522)
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| fixed length control field | 01817cam a2200205 a 4500 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780521199032 (hbk.) |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0521199034 (hardback) |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | KC80.P33 2011 |
| Item number | 08145451 |
| MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Pahuja, Sundhya |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Decolonising international law : |
| Remainder of title | development, economic growth, and the politics of universality / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Sundhya Pahuja |
| Copyright Date | |
| Place of publication | New York |
| Name of publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year of publication or production | 2011 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | vii, 303 p. ; |
| SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Cambridge studies in international and comparative law |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction -- Inaugurating a new rationality -- From decolonisation to developmental nation state -- From permanent sovereignty to investor protection -- Development and the rule of (international} law -- Conclusion |
| SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "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"-- |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | International law |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Postcolonialism |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Law and economic development |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
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