Between Equal Rights

A Marxist Theory of International Law
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13134-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 194 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 821 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

This book critically examines existing theories of international law and makes the case for an alternative Marxist approach. China Miéville draws on the pioneering jurisprudence of Evgeny Pashukanis linking law to commodity exchange, and in turn uses international law to make better sense of Pashukanis. Miéville argues that despite its advances, the recent ‘New Stream’ of radical international legal scholarship, like the mainstream it opposes, fails to make sense of the legal form itself. Drawing on Marxist theory and a critical history of international law from the sixteenth century to the present day, Miéville seeks to address that failure, and argues that international law is fundamentally constituted by the violence of imperialism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miéville, China

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. 'The Vanishing Point of Jurisprudence': International Law in Mainstream Theory
2. Dissident Theories: Critical Legal Studies and Historical Materialism
3. For Pashukanis: An Exposition and Defence of the Commodity-Form Theory of Law
4. Coercion and the Legal Form: Politics, (International) Law and the State
5. States, markets and the Sea: Issues in the History of International Law
6. Imperialism, Sovereingnty and International Law

Conclusion

Appendix A: Pashukanis on International Law

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

China Miéville, Ph.D. (2001) in International Relations, London School of Economics, is an independent researcher and an award-winning novelist. He is a member of the editorial board of Historical Materialism.