Book Details
Orange Code:913111
Paperback:331 pages
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1. What should international lawyers learn from Karl Marx?2. An outline of a Marxist course on public international law3. Thecommodity-form theory of international law4. Positivism versus self-determination: the contradictions of Soviet international law5. Marxism and international law: perspectives for the American (twenty-first) century?6. Toward a radical political economy critique of transnational economic law7. Marxian insights for the human rights project8. Marxian embraces (and de-couplings) in Upendra Baxi’s human rights scholarship: a case study9. Exploitation as an international legal concept
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Against expectations that the turn away from state socialism would likewise initiate a turn away from Marxist thought, recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in Marxism and its reassessment by a new generation of theorists. This book pursues that interest with specific reference to international law. It presents a sustained and fascinating exploration of the pertinence of Marxist ideas, concepts and analytical practices for international legal enquiry from a range of angles. Essays consider the relationship between Marxism and critical approaches to international law, the legacy of Soviet international legal theory, the bearing of Marxism for the analysis of international trade law and human rights, and the significance for international legal enquiry of such Marxist concepts as the commodity, praxis and exploitation
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