Marxism

Robert Knox

Chapter 13 in Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), 2025, pp 141-155 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter maps the relationship between TWAIL scholarship and the Marxist tradition – focusing specifically on the relationship between capitalism, imperialism and race. It begins with a reconstruction of Marxist approaches to law and imperialism, demonstrating how these positions found purchase in the work of Third World international lawyers. The chapter then shifts to the birth of neoliberalism: the time when a self-identified TWAIL movement was born. Finally, the piece turns to today. It outlines the parallel co-evolution of a revivified Marxist critique and TWAIL scholarship on the political economy of capitalism. It closes by reflecting on recent debates around ‘racial capitalism’.

Keywords: TWAIL; Marxism; Racial capitalism; Imperialism; Colonialism; Capitalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789901511
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