Systemic Violence of the Law: Colonialism and International Investment

Enrique Prieto-Rios

doi:10.5771/9781538157855

Summary

This book argues that International Investment Law system – IIL - was the result of a colonial project within a capitalist system that has been influenced by the developmentalism discourse and the neoliberal ideology, becoming an instrument that facilitated forms of systemic violence against Third World countries. In order to develop this argument, Enrique Prieto-Rios uses post-war critical thought, chiefly Fanon as interpreted by Lewis R Gordon, the works pursued by academics, part of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, the Institute for Global Law and Policy, the international law from below (southern perspectives), and critical economic thought— particularly the notable economic contributions of Ha-Joon Chang and Latin-American philosopher Enrique Dussel.

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Edition: 1/2021
Copyright Year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-5784-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-5785-5
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 156
Product Type: Monograph

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
1. IIL System in Context No access
2. Moving Forward No access
3. A System to Resolve Conflicts? No access
4. About This Work No access
1. Introduction No access
2. From Plunder to the IIL System? No access
3. FDI and Investments Awards: Some Data No access
4. IIL as Instrument of Systemic Violence No access
5. IIL, Globalcentrism and Systemic Violence No access
6. Conclusion No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Investing abroad No access
3. The Thirst for FDI by Third World Countries No access
4. Shadows of Illusions No access
5. Conclusion No access
1. Introduction No access
2. The Treaties No access
3. Direct and Indirect Expropriation No access
4. Investor-State Dispute Settlement – ISDS No access
5. Conclusion No access
1. Introduction No access
2. An Encrypted Discourse No access
3. Dialectics of Vagueness and Technicality No access
4. The Initiated No access
5. Consequences No access
6. Conclusion No access
1. Introduction No access
2. About Ideology No access
3. The Rise of Neoliberalism No access
4. IIL and the Neoliberal Ideology No access
5. Conclusion No access
1. Introduction No access
2. ISDS: between Blurb and Dark No access
3. ISDS: Open to Reforms? No access
4. An Autopoietic System No access
5. Conclusion No access
1. IIL as an Instrument of Systemic Violence No access
2. From Colonialism to the Age of Development No access
3. The New Beneficiaries of the System No access
4. Output and Further Work No access
Bibliography No access Pages 129 - 148
Index No access Pages 149 - 154
About the Author No access Pages 155 - 156