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Dreams and nightmares of liberal international law: capitalist accumulation, natural rights and state hegemony
This article develops a line of theorising the relationship between peace, war and commerce and does so via conceptualising global juridical relations as a site of contestation over questions of economic and social justice. By sketching aspects of a historical interaction between capitalist accumulation, natural rights and state hegemony, the article offers a critical account of the limits of liberal international law, and attempts to recover some ground for thinking about the emancipatory potential of international law more generally.
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Law and CritiqueISSN
0957-8536Publisher
SpringerExternal DOI
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1Volume
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23-41Department affiliated with
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