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001 2011026078
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008 110620s2011 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011026078
020 $a9780521199032 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aKZ1250$b.P34 2011
082 00 $a341$223
084 $aLAW051000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aPahuja, Sundhya.
245 10 $aDecolonising international law :$bdevelopment, economic growth, and the politics of universality /$cSundhya Pahuja.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
263 $a1109
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aCambridge studies in international and comparative law ;$v86
520 $a"The universal promise of contemporary international law has long inspired countries of the Global South to use it as an important field of contestation over global inequality. Taking three central examples, Sundhya Pahuja argues that this promise has been subsumed within a universal claim for a particular way of life by the idea of 'development'. As the horizon of the promised transformation and concomitant equality has receded ever further, international law has legitimised an ever-increasing sphere of intervention in the Third World. The post-war wave of decolonisation ended in the creation of the developmental nation-state, the claim to permanent sovereignty over natural resources in the 1950s and 1960s was transformed into the protection of foreign investors, and the promotion of the rule of international law in the early 1990s has brought about the rise of the rule of law as a development strategy in the present day"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 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.
650 0 $aInternational law.
650 0 $aPostcolonialism.
650 0 $aLaw and economic development.
650 7 $aLAW / International$2bisacsh.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/99032/cover/9780521199032.jpg