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Free flow of information : hegemony, contestation, and international law / Wanshu Cong, Australian National University.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cong, Wanshu, Author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 199.
- Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 199
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freedom of information (International law).
- Telecommunication--Law and legislation.
- Telecommunication.
- Data protection--Law and legislation.
- Data protection.
- Income distribution--Law and legislation.
- Income distribution.
- Wealth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 286 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- The book offers a critical history of how international law governs information to entrench unequal distribution of wealth and power since the end of World War II. Mapping doctrinal and institutional developments of various subfields in international law that concern the organization of cross-border information flow, this book identifies a dual-sided framework consisting human rights and free trade as a hegemonic framework for the governance of information. Drawing on Marxist legal theory, Third World Approaches to International Law, critical media studies, and heterodox political economy, the book argues that this framework, despite persistent internal contradictions and external contestations, has evolved to facilitate the expansion of capital and reproduce hierarchy throughout three eras of capitalist transformations of the past eight decades.
- Contents:
- “Free Flow of Information” in the Postwar World Order : An Early Intimation of the Dual-Sided Framework
- Freedom of information as a peace project revisited : building the American economic empire
- Information Flow on the Cusp of the Neoliberal Globalization : the Liberalization of Telecommunications
- Human Rights and the “Free Flow of Information” in the Internet Age
- “Free Flow” in the Digital Age : Data Governance and the Maturation of the Dual-Sided Framework
- The Liberal World Order and the End of “Free Flow”?
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2026).
- ISBN:
- 1-009-58492-8
- 9781009584913
- OCLC:
- 1609717665
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