Chapter 6 Web Links

Articles

Anghie, Antony (2006) The evolution of international law: Colonial and postcolonial realities. Third World Quarterly 27(5): 739-753. An article giving an account of international law through the history of imperialism, arguing that colonialism has always underpinned the discipline in a general sense, and in particular the category of sovereignty as one of its key concepts.

Chimni, B. S. (2007) The Past, Present and Future of International Law: A Critical Third World Approach. Melbourne Journal of International Law 8(2): 499-515. An article tracing the historical development of international law from a Third World perspective in order to imagine a new international legal platform that supports subaltern classes globally.

Slaughter, Anne-Marie and Alvarez, Jose E. (2000) A Liberal Theory of International Law. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (American Society of International Law) 94(5-8): 240-253. An article arguing that liberal International Relations theory explains the significance of law for the international order.

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAzMfU2aWwc

Lecture by Antony Anghie drawing on Third World Approaches to International Law to make the claim that international law is imbricated with colonialism.

Website

https://globalchallenges.ch/issue/10/decolonisation-and-international-law/

A blogpost by Fuad Zarbiyev about the role of international law in reproducing hierarchies of power and resources.