North-South Dialogue: A New International Economic Order. Thesaurus Acroasium, Vol. XII. Thessaloniki: Institute of Public International Law and International Relations of Thessaloniki, 1982. Pp. ix, 700. $70.

1985 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 501-503
Author(s):  
Giorgio Sacerdoti
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Law ◽  
International Economic Order ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
Public International Law

The End of Empire and the Search for Justice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Linarelli ◽  
Margot E Salomon ◽  
Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Economic ◽  
International Law ◽  
International Economic Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology ◽  
First Time

This chapter is a study of the themes of the New International Economic Order (NIEO). It begins with the notion of justice that had been constructed in imperial law to justify empire and colonialism. The NIEO was the first time a prescription was made for justice in a global context not based on domination of one people over another. In its consideration of the emergence of a new notion of justice in international law, the chapter discusses the reasons for the origins of the NIEO, and goes on to describe the principles of the NIEO and the extent to which they came into conflict with dominant international law as accepted by the United States and European states. Next the chapter deals with the rise of the neoliberal ideology that led to the displacement of the NIEO and examines the issue of whether the NIEO and its ideals have passed or whether they continue to be or should be influential in international law. Finally, the chapter turns to the ideas of the NIEO alongside new efforts at promoting a fuller account of justice by which to justify and evaluate international law.

Decolonization in International Law

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mai Taha
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
International Law ◽  
Third World ◽  
International Economic Order ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
The People ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Third World

In Gillo Pontecorvo’s evocative film The Battle of Algiers (1966), viewers reach the conclusion that the fight against colonialism would not be fought at the UN General Assembly. Decolonization would take place through the organized resistance of colonized people. Still, the 1945 United Nations Charter and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights provided some legal basis, albeit tenuous, for self-determination. When Third World leaders assembled in the 1955 Bandung Conference, it became clear that the UN needed to shift gears on the question of decolonization. By 1960, and through a show of Asian and African votes at the General Assembly, the Declaration for the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples was adopted, effectively outlawing colonialism and affirming the right of all peoples to self-determination. Afro-Asian solidarity took a different form in the 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana, which founded the Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The conference gathered leftist activists and leaders from across the Third World, who would later inspire radical movements and scholarship on decolonization and anticolonial socialism. This would also influence the adoption of the 1974 Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order and later lead to UNESCO’s series that starts with Mohammed Bedjaoui’s famous overture, Towards a New International Economic Order (1979; cited as Bedjaoui 1979 under the Decolonization “Moment”). This article situates this history within important international-law scholarship on decolonization. First, it introduces different approaches to decolonization and international law; namely, postcolonial, Marxist, feminist, and Indigenous approaches. Second, it highlights seminal texts on international law and the colonial encounter. Third, it focuses on scholarship that captures the spirit of the “decolonization moment” as a political and temporal rupture, but also as a continuity, addressing, fourth, decolonization and neocolonial practices. Finally, this article ends with some of the most important works on international law and settler colonialism in the 21st century.

Equity and Ideology in the International Law of Development: The “New International Economic Order” Revisited

1998 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-80
Author(s):  
Chulwoo Lee
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
International Law ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
World Order ◽  
International Economic Order ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
United Nations General Assembly

This study reviews the initiative for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) and its implications in the discourse of international law. The NIEO enterprise, a product of the international political economy of the 1970s, has come to a stalemate. Yet international forums have continued to articulate many of its messages. In addition to its political and economic effects, the NIEO initiative has contributed to the development of jurisprudence and legal philosophy by stimulating a rethinking and elaboration of the notion of justice in international law and by rekindling the question of what law is in international law. This study canvasses how the NIEO enterprise has unfolded itself through various international forums, particularly the United Nations General Assembly, and the major issues raised in the NIEO-related resolutions, analyses the politico-ideological implications of various NIEO-related arguments, explores the debates on the nature and status of the NIEO principles in international law, and addresses the inherent conflict between the state-centred notion of the world order and the supranational, global approach which has straddled the NIEO discussions.

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