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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.

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. The book approaches the topic by analysing the meaning of revolution and what revolutionary activity might look like, before comparing this with legal activity, to assess the basic compatibility between the two. It then moves on to examine two prominent examples of revolutionary movements engaging with international law from the twentieth century; the early Soviet Union and the Third World movement in the nineteen sixties and seventies. The book proposes that the form of law', or its base logic, is rooted in capitalist social relations of private property and contract, and that therefore the law is a particularly inhospitable place to advance revolutionary breaks with established distributions of power or wealth. This does not mean that the law is irrelevant to revolutionaries, but that turning to legal means comes with tendencies towards conservative outcomes. In the light of this, the book considers the possibility of how, or whether, international law might contribute to the pursuit of a more egalitarian future. International Law and Revolution fills a significant gap in the field of international legal theory by offering a deep theoretical reflection on the meaning of the concept of revolution for the twenty-first century, and its link to the international legal system. It develops the commodity form theory of law as applied to international law, and explores the limits of law for progressive social struggle, informed by historical analysis. It will therefore appeal to students and scholars of public international law, legal history, human rights, international politics and political history.

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