Full Description
This book is the first-ever comprehensive analysis of international law from Global South perspectives with specific reference to Bangladesh.
The book not only sheds new light on classical international law concepts, such as statehood, citizenship, and self-determination, but also covers more current issues including Rohingya refugees, climate change, sustainable development, readymade garment workers and crimes against humanity. Written by area specialists, the book explores how international law shaped Bangladesh state practice over the last five decades; how Bangladesh in turn contributed to the development of international law; and the manner in which international law is also used as a hegemonic tool for marginalising less powerful countries like Bangladesh. By analysing stories of an ambivalent relationship between international law and post-colonial states, the book exposes the duality of international law as both a problem-solving tool and as a language of hegemony.
Despite its focus on Bangladesh, the book deals with the more general problem of post-colonial states' problematic relationship with international law and so will be of interest to students and scholars of international law in general, as well as those interested in the Global South and South Asia in particular.
Contents
Part I General International Law Issues 1. Glimpses of International Law Discourse 2. Framework of Engagement with International Law 3. Judicial Invocation of International Law 4. Involvements in International Courts & Tribunals Part II Sources 5. Customary International Law 6. The Law of Treaties and Treaty Reservations Part III Statehood 7. Territory, People, and Self-determination 8. Citizenship and Statelessness 9. Natural Resources 10. International Watercourse Law 11. Marine Resources and the Blue Economy Part IV International Environment Law 12. International Environmental Law 13. Climate Change and Human Mobility 14. Sustainable Development Part V International Economic Law 15. Intellectual Property Rights and Other Trade & Development Challenges 16. LDC Graduation and WTO Challenges 17. International Investment Agreements Part VI International Criminal Law 18. International Criminal Law: Historical Perspectives 19. Substantive Law of the International Crimes Tribunal (Bangladesh) 20. Crimes against Humanity and the Principle of Legality Part VII The State and Its Others 21. Women and a National Imaginary 22. Rohingya Refugees 23. Religious Minorities 24. Indigenous Peoples & Ethnic Minorities 25. Readymade Garment Workers and Inchoate Compensation Rights 26. Slum Dwellers and Forced Evictions 27. Voices of Dissent
