International Law on the Left Re-examining Marxist Legacies Revisiting Marxist Legacies Re-examining Marxist Legacies

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 13
1.1. Materialism......Page 14
1.2. Capitalism......Page 16
1.3. Ideology......Page 19
1.4. Imperialism......Page 22
1.5. Totality......Page 25
2. Our re-examination......Page 28
3. ‘On the left’......Page 39
1. Introduction......Page 42
2. The nature of the critical project......Page 44
2.1. Against the bourgeois state......Page 45
2.2. Against liberal humanism......Page 47
3. Dialectical thinking: how Marx connects with the indeterminacy of the law?......Page 50
3.1. Dialectics and deconstruction in law......Page 52
3.2. International relations: an excursus......Page 54
3.3. Beyond dichotomies?......Page 57
4. Civil society and universalism......Page 59
1.1. The difficulties in telling an alternative story......Page 65
1.2. What is distinctive about our text?......Page 67
2. The state, the capitalist world economy and international law......Page 69
3. The character of contemporary international law......Page 72
4. Sources of international law......Page 77
4.1. Treaties......Page 78
4.2. Customary international law......Page 82
4.3. Soft law......Page 84
5. The relationship between international law andmunicipal
law: growing integration......Page 85
6. The jurisdiction of states......Page 86
7. International economic law......Page 90
8. International environmental law......Page 93
9. International human rights law......Page 94
10. The international law of state responsibility......Page 96
11. International law and the use of force......Page 99
12. Looking ahead......Page 101
1.1. The blight of managerialism......Page 104
1.2. The insights of indeterminacy......Page 106
1.3. The limits of idealism......Page 107
1.4. The Marxist response......Page 108
1.5. The black box of the legal form......Page 109
2.1. The specificity of Marxism......Page 110
2.2. ‘Official’ Marxism......Page 111
2.3. Alternative Marxisms......Page 112
2.4. Law as ideology......Page 114
2.5. Law as iniquitous content......Page 116
3.1. The General Theory of Law and Marxism......Page 117
3.2.1. The excesses of state derivation......Page 122
3.2.2. The contingency of superordinate authority and the ‘law-ness’ of international law......Page 126
3.2.3. ‘Club law is law’: self-help as legal regulation......Page 127
3.2.4. Putting the content in the legal form: power and its political economy......Page 130
4.1. ‘Serving two masters’: the imperialism of freedom......Page 132
4.2. Post-imperial international law?......Page 134
5. From commodity formto class law......Page 138
6.1. The new cosmopolitan advocates......Page 139
6.2. Against the rule of law......Page 141
1. Introduction......Page 145
2. ‘Taking the dogma for a walk’......Page 146
3.1. Bolshevism versus Austro-Marxism......Page 149
3.2. Stalin’s ‘scientific’ contribution......Page 152
3.3. The Bolshevik origins of the right to self-determination......Page 153
4. The Soviet practice of self-determination......Page 156
5.1. Pashukanis’s history......Page 158
5.2. Pashukanis revived: China Miéville......Page 160
6. Pashukanis’s limitations......Page 161
7. Pashukanis’s official trajectory......Page 163
8. Why did Pashukanis miss self-determination?......Page 168
9.1. De-colonisation......Page 170
9.2. The right to self-determination in international law......Page 173
9.3. The national liberation movements......Page 174
10. Vietnam and the Czech Spring: further contradictions in
self-determination......Page 176
11. Conclusion – another account......Page 179
1. Introduction......Page 181
2. Post-structuralism and the end of Marxism......Page 182
3. National sovereignty and economic reform......Page 190
4. Characteristics of late capitalism and the structure
of international relations......Page 192
5. The shaping of international law agendas......Page 199
1. Introduction......Page 211
2. International trade law and the empire of capital......Page 217
3. GATS and the commodity formtheory of transnational
economic law......Page 222
4. Beyond the abyssal divide: the praxis conception of law......Page 227
7 Marxian insights for the human rights project......Page 232
1. Marxism’s compatibility with the rule of law......Page 234
2. Marx as distinctive contributor to the human rights project......Page 244
2.1. Form and substance: beyond legality, rights and democracy
‘without adjectives’......Page 245
2.1.1. Legality......Page 246
2.1.2. Rights......Page 250
2.1.3. Democracy......Page 252
2.2. Socialist ends: beyond the right-good distinction......Page 257
3. Conclusion......Page 262
1. Introduction......Page 264
2. Baxi the (international) human rights scholar......Page 267
3. Baxi the TWAIL scholar......Page 269
4. Baxi’s ‘new proletariat’......Page 272
5. Is Baxi a historical materialist?......Page 274
6. Marxian currents in the Baxian TREMF thesis......Page 276
7. Marxian embraces in the Baxian approach to human rights
movements and NGOs......Page 282
8. Some Baxian de-couplings from Marxian praxis......Page 287
9. Conclusions......Page 290
9 Exploitation as an international legal concept......Page 293
1. Exploitation......Page 295
1.1. Marx’s analysis......Page 296
1.2. Exploitation today......Page 299
1.3. Key features......Page 303
2.1. International legal perspectives......Page 305
2.2. False contingency......Page 311
2.3. The ideology of mutuality......Page 314
3. Conclusion......Page 317
Index......Page 321