Between Equal Rights by China Miéville

A Marxist Theory of International Law

A Marxist critique of international law that argues the rhetoric of equal rights and sovereign equality masks and helps reproduce global capitalist and imperial power, tracing how legal doctrines, institutions and practices—from colonial law and the inter-state system to human rights and humanitarian intervention—have been used to organize and legitimize unequal political and economic relations; it proposes a materialist reading of international law that situates legal forms within class struggle, empire and state interests rather than treating law as a neutral or purely normative framework.

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