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Rhetoric And Rage: Third World Voices In International Legal Discourse, Karin Mickelson
Rhetoric And Rage: Third World Voices In International Legal Discourse, Karin Mickelson
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This paper sets out to question the conventional view of the Third World and international law, which tends to characterize Third World legal discourse as ad hoc and reactive. It considers whether it might be possible to identify "distinctive modes of thought and analysis" characteristic of a Third World approach to international law. In her analysis, the author begins by exploring various usages of the term "Third World," and explains the way in which it is used in this paper. She then sketches out Third World approaches to the subject areas of international economic law, human rights and the environment, …