Decolonising international law : development, economic growth, and the politics of universality / Su...
Decolonising international law : development, economic growth, and the politics of universality / Su...
Decolonising international law : development, economic growth, and the politics of universality / Sundhya Pahuja.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2011.
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N341/220
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English
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vii, 303 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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.
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Publisher
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2011.
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England
Date Published
c2011.
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Summary
"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'....
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Decolonising international law : development, economic growth, and the politics of universality / Sundhya Pahuja.
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Cambridge studies in international and comparative law.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-293) and index.
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N341/220
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74Vv3edpWOlM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv3edpWOlM
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ISBN
0521199034 (hardback)
9780521199032 (hbk.)
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341
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991009884709702626
