This volume is devoted to critically exploring the past, present and future relevance of international law to the priorities of the countries, peoples and regions of the South. Within the limits of space it has tried to be comprehensive in scope and representative in perspective and participation.
The contributions are grouped into three clusters to give some sense of coherence to the overall theme: articles by Baxi, Anghie, Falk, Stevens and Rajagopal on general issues bearing on the interplay between international law and world order; articles highlighting regional experience by An-Naim, Okafor, Obregon and Shalakany; and articles on substantive perspectives by Mgbeoji, Nesiah, Said, Elver, King-Irani, Chinkin, Charlesworth and Gathii. This collective effort gives an illuminating account of the unifying themes, while at the same time exhibiting the wide diversity of concerns and approaches.
1. Reshaping Justice: International Law and the Third World: An
Introduction Richard Falk, Balakrishnan Rajagopal and Jacqueline Stevens
2.
What may the 'Third World' Expect from International Law? Upendra Baxi
3.
International Law and the Future Richard Falk
4. The Evolution of
International Law: Colonial and Postcolonial Realities Antony Anghie
5.
Recreating the State Jacqueline Stevens
6. Counter-hegemonic International
Law: Rethinking Human Rights and Development as a Third World Strategy
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
7. Why should Muslims Abandon Jihad?: Human Rights and
the Future of International Law Abdullahi Ahmed An-na'im
8. Poverty, Agency
and Resistance in the Future of International Law: An African Perspective
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
9. Between Civilisation and Barbarism: Creole
Interventions in International Law Liliana Obregon
10. 'I Heard it All
Before' Egyptian Tales of Law and Development Amr Shalakany
11. The Civilised
Self and the Barbaric Other: Imperial Delusions of Order and the Challenges
of Human Security Ikechi Mgbeoji
12. Political Asylum and Torture: A
Comparative Analysis Wadie E. Said
13. International Environmental Law, Water
and the Future Hilal Elver
14. Resistance in the Age of Empire: Occupied
Discourse Pending Investigation Vasuki Nesiah
15. Exiled to a Liminal Legal
Zone: Are we all Palestinians now? Laurie King-Irani
16. Building Women into
Peace: The International Legal Framework Christine Chinkin and Hilary
Charlesworth
17. Third World Approaches to International Economic Governance
James Thuo Gathii
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Richard Falk, Jacqueline Stevens