Dreams and Nightmares of Liberal International Law: Capitalist Accumulation, Natural Rights and State Hegemony
Journal: Law and Critique
Year: 2016

This article develops a line of theorising the relationship between peace, war and commerce and does so via conceptualising global juridical relations as a site of contestation over questions of economic and social justice. By sketching aspects of a historical interaction between capitalist accumulation, natural rights and state hegemony, the article offers a critical account of the limits of liberal international law, and attempts to recover some ground for thinking about the emancipatory poten