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Book SynopsisThis book articulates a new approach to international law combining the insights of Marxism, socialist feminism and postcolonial theory. It offers a critique of the principal contemporary perspectives to international law, and analyzes a range of world order issues that include imperialism, the states system, and democracy.
Trade Review'Chimni offers many useful and refreshing insights, both on substantive international law and on the authors he takes to task, and he is nothing if not a fair critic.' Jan Klabbers, Journal of Economic Literature
Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The classical realist approach to international law: the world of Hans Morgenthau; 3. The policy-oriented or new haven approach to international law: the contributions of Myres McDougal and Harold Lasswell; 4. Richard Falk and the Grotian quest: toward transdisciplinary jurisprudence; 5. New approaches to international law: the critical scholarship of David Kennedy and Martti Koskenneimi; 6. Feminist approaches to international law: the work of Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin; 7. Toward an integrated Marxist approach to international law (IMAIL).
