Completing Humanity
The International Law of Decolonization, 1960–82
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- Author: Umut Özsu, Carleton University, Ottawa
- Date Published: December 2023
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After the Second World War, the dissolution of European empires and emergence of 'new states' in Asia, Africa, Oceania, and elsewhere necessitated large-scale structural changes in international legal order. In Completing Humanity, Umut Özsu recounts the history of the struggle to transform international law during the twentieth century's last major wave of decolonization. Commencing in 1960, with the General Assembly's landmark decolonization resolution, and concluding in 1982, with the close of the third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea and the onset of the Latin American debt crisis, the book examines the work of elite international lawyers from newly independent states alongside that of international law specialists from 'First World' and socialist states. A study in modifications to legal theory and doctrine over time, it documents and reassesses post-1945 decolonization from the standpoint of the 'Third World' and the jurists who elaborated and defended its interests.
Read more- Describes, explains, and critically analyzes changes to international legal theory and doctrine during the late twentieth century
- Details efforts by international lawyers and others from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and beyond to restructure international law
- Examines international legal debates about decolonization in conjunction with debates about development, political economy, and economic history
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‘In this study of the many initiatives of Third World states commencing in the 1960s, Özsu provides a vivid account of the personalities involved, the projects they inaugurated, and the battles fought over the meaning and direction of international law. What emerges is a masterly history of the ‘international law of decolonization’, a rich and valuable addition to the literature on a topic that is finally receiving the attention it deserves.' Tony Anghie, National University of Singapore
See more reviews‘In this history of the Third World's bid to transform international law, Özsu illustrates why the law was such an important arena for political struggle, tracks the expansive visions of an international legal order pioneered by lawyers from the global South, and makes clear how the struggles of the past remain with us in the present. Written with clarity and precision, Completing Humanity is an important contribution to the growing scholarship on decolonization.' Adom Getachew, University of Chicago
‘In his stunning and unprecedented book, Umut Özsu describes the ambition and breadth of the decolonizing agenda — and why international law mattered so much to it – while probing the impasses, limits, and resistance that foiled it. An accessible and dramatic story, Completing Humanity is based on exemplary learning and overflowing with insight and provocation: the most significant and sophisticated contribution to the history of international law written in many years.' Samuel Moyn, Yale University
‘This is a gripping new take on the relationship between the historical process of decolonization and international law. Özsu focuses on five key debates in international law which hold at their heart the struggle between those who seek to move beyond the tragic legacies of empire, and those who benefit from those legacies. The book offers a sustained engagement with a panoply of eminent and courageous jurists from the South, their allies, interlocutors, and rivals. The thoughtful alignment between orientation, method, and structure is a model for scholars of all stripes.' Sundhya Pahuja, University of Melbourne
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- Date Published: December 2023
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781108672443
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Fixing Selves
2. Forging Universals
3. Redistributing Resources
4. Pooling Rights
5. Righting Markets
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
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