Between equal rights : a Marxist theory of international law / by China Mieville.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Miéville, China.

Series:

• Historical materialism book series ; 6.
• Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; vol. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• International law and socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction
• 'The Vanishing Point of Jurisprudence': International Law in Mainstream Theory
• Dissident Theories: Critical Legal Studies and Historical Materialism
• For Pashukanis: An Exposition and Defence of the Commodity-Form Theory of Law
• Coercion and the Legal Form: Politics, (International) Law and the State
• States, Markets and the Sea: Issues in the History of International Law
• Imperialism, Sovereignty and International Law
• Against the Rule of Law
• Pashukanis on International Law
• Bibliography
• Index.

Notes:

• Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Dept. of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-363) and index.

ISBN:

• 1-280-85933-4
• 9786610859337
• 1-4294-2684-5
• 90-474-0461-0
• 1-4337-0471-4

OCLC:

476023666

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047404613 DOI