International law and the Third World : reshaping justice / edited by Richard Falk, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, and Jacqueline Stevens.

"First published in 2008. Transferred to Digital Printing 2010."--T.p. verso of paperback ed

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Richard Falk, Balakrishnan Rajagopal and Jacqueline Stevens -- What may the 'Third World' expect from international law?/ Upendra Baxi -- International law and the future / Richard Falk -- The evolution of international law: colonial and postcolonial realities / Antony Anghie -- Recreating the state / Jacqueline Stevens -- Counter-hegemonic international law: rethinking human rights and development as a Third World strategy / Balakrishnan Rajagopal -- Why should Muslims abandon Jihad?: human rights and the future of international law / Abdullahi Ahmed An-na'im -- Poverty, agency and resistance in the future of international law: an African perspective / Obiora Chinedu Okafor -- Between civilisation and barbarism: Creole interventions in international law / Liliana Obregon -- 'I heard it all before' Egyptian tales of law and development / Amr Shalakany -- The Civilised Self and the Barbaric Other: imperial delusions of order and the challenges of human security / Ikechi Mgbeoji -- Political asylum and torture: a comparative analysis / Wadie E. Said -- International environmental law, water and the future / Hilal Elver -- Resistance in the age of empire: occupied discourse pending investigation / Vasuki Nesiah -- Exiled to a liminal legal zone: are we all Palestinians now? / Laurie King-Irani -- Building women into peace: the international legal framework / Christine Chinkin and Hilary Charlesworth -- Third World approaches to international economic governance / James Thuo Gathii.

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-Na{u2019}im, 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.