Trade law

Donatella Alessandrini

Chapter 32 in Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), 2025, pp 372-385 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) have invited us to ask different questions of the relationship between trade and the global political economy and, in so doing, they have enabled us to think differently about the reproduction of planetary injustices. This chapter focuses on the challenges that TWAIL work has made to hegemonic trade narratives which, underpinned by implicit racial and gender assumptions, continue to sustain asymmetrical power relations that are productive of unequal forms of worth and wealth. In its refusal to adopt a single theoretical approach, dedication to conceptual and methodological heterogeneity, commitment to navigate the tensions between critique and reconstruction, and engagement with other fellow travellers lies TWAIL's potential to puncture the current international trade law edifice so to prefigure more desirable forms of trade relations.

Keywords: TWAIL; Trade and civilising mission; Sustainable; Development and; Inclusive; Growth; Mobile capital and surplus labour; Planetary injustices and inequalities; Prefiguration of alternative trade relations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789901511
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