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International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance » (1st Edition)

Authors: Balakrishnan Rajagopal, B. Rajagopal
ISBN-13: 9780521016711, ISBN-10: 0521016711
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: 1st Edition

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

	Abbreviations
	Preface and Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	International law, development, and Third World resistance	7
1	Writing Third World resistance into international law 9
2	International law and the development encounter	24
Pt. II	International law, Third World resistance, and the institutionalization of development: the invention of the apparatus	37
3	Laying the groundwork: the Mandate system	50
4	Radicalizing institutions and/or institutionalizing radicalism? UNCTAD and the NIEO debate	73
5	From resistance to renewal: Bretton Woods institutions and the emergence of the "new" development agenda	95
6	Completing a full circle: democracy and the discontent of development	135
Pt. III	Decolonizing resistance: human rights and the challenge of social movements	163
7	Human rights and the Third World: constituting the discourse of resistance	171
8	Recoding resistance: social movements and the challenge to international law	233
9	Markets, gender and identity: a case study of the Working Women's Forum as a social movement	272
Pt. IV	Epilogue	289
	References	297
	Index	330