International Law and Revolution.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Foreground: revolutionary times? -- Critical times -- critical scholarship -- A materialist approach to international law -- Revolutions of all shapes and sizes -- The structure of the book -- Why law anyway? -- 1 Revolution and revolutionary praxis -- I: Introduction -- II: Revolution in existing scholarship -- III: The conceptual history of revolution -- IV: Marxist revolution - political and social -- bourgeois and proletarian -- V: Revolutionary agency -- VI: Conclusion -- 2 International law and international legal praxis -- I: Introduction -- II: The ambiguous promise of international law -- III: The politics of law and fundamental legal indeterminacy -- IV: Pashukanis and the commodity form theory of law -- V: The brutal heart of law -- VI: Revolutionary praxis in law -- VII: Conclusion -- 3 The Soviet relationship to international law -- I: Introduction -- II: Background - revolution, foreign policy and the law -- III: The Soviet 'approach' to international law -- IV: The view from without -- V: Common international legal practice? -- VI: Understanding the Soviet 'approach' -- VII: Revolutionary legal praxis and the Soviet example -- VIII: Conclusion -- 4 The Third World and the New International Economic Order -- I: Introduction -- II: Background -- III: The Third World relationship to international law -- IV: Bandung -- Non-Aligned Movement and the G77 -- UNCTAD -- V: OPEC: commodities, commodity booms and oil - the exception -- VI: Resolutions -- VII: Revolutionary legal praxis and the Third World - an assessment -- VIII: Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Counter-revolutionary times -- The importance of reclaiming revolution -- The possibility of revolutionary praxis as legal praxis -- Fundamental legal relations.

Soviet legal practice: between pragmatism and revolution -- Third World legal practice: between idealism and revolution -- The vulnerable heart of law: property and contract -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book explores the historical inter-relations between international law and revolution, with a focus on how international anti-capitalist struggle plays out through law.

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