scholarly journals A questão desenvolvimentista na segunda metade do século XX: um olhar desde as TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law)

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrique Weil Afonso

O objetivo do presente trabalho é analisar a tradição crítica do Direito Internacional no contexto da segunda metade do século XX no tocante aos desafios da inserção dos novos países à sociedade internacional de Estados. Para tanto, foi empreendido estudo qualitativo, amparado em bibliografia técnica e análise documental, nos contornos do recorte temporal assinalado. As Abordagens do Terceiro Mundo para o Direito Internacional (TWAIL, na sigla em inglês) consistem em movimento teórico de variadas influências, mas cujo propósito central é investigar as causas históricas, econômicas, políticas e culturais da perpetuação do subdesenvolvimento e da injustiça globais. São contempladas duas gerações de teóricos do movimento, a primeira compreendendo os desafios da emancipação política e desenvolvimento das décadas de 1960 e 1970, e a segunda, as dificuldades de proposição de alternativas institucionais e normativas favoráveis aos interesses do designado Terceiro Mundo no pós Guerra Fria. Constatou-se, após o exame das contribuições destas gerações, o que se denominou de armadilhas à emancipação dos países em desenvolvimento, que hoje precisam integrar a agenda do movimento.

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 629-653
Author(s):  
Valerie Muguoh Chiatoh

African states and institutions believe that the principle of territorial integrity is applicable to sub-state groups and limits their right to self-determination, contrary to international law. The Anglophone Problem in Cameroon has been an ever-present issue of social, political and economic debates in the country, albeit most times in undertones. This changed as the problem metamorphosed into an otherwise preventable devastating armed conflict with external self-determination having become very popular among the Anglophone People. This situation brings to light the drawbacks of irregular decolonisation, third world colonialism and especially the relationship between self-determination and territorial integrity in Africa.


Author(s):  
José E. Alvarez

This chapter surveys how international legal scholars have catalogued and sought to explain the legal impact of the UN even though its political and judicial organs have not been delegated the power to make law. It explains how the UN attempts to adhere to, but also challenges, the traditional sources of international law—treaties, custom, and general principles—contained in the Statute of the International Court of Justice. It enumerates how the turn to UN system organizations—amidst newly empowered non-state actors, increasing resort to ‘soft’ or ‘informal’ norms, and recourse to institutionalized processes—have led to distinct legal frameworks such as process or deliberative theories, interdisciplinary ‘law and’ approaches, feminist and ‘Third World’ critiques, and scholarly work that renews attention to or revises legal positivism.


AJIL Unbound ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 20-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Obiora Chinedu Okafor

The roles that Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) scholars could play in political and/or socio-economic struggles beyond the academy, and the relationships of these scholars to politicians, diplomats activists, civil servants, peasant movements, civil society, and other nonacademic actors are issues as important to TWAIL as they are understudied and underenacted. The three essays in this TWAIL Symposium take up this theme of praxis.


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