Emergency

John Reynolds

Chapter 41 in Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), 2025, pp 499-510 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Emergency was a central motif of colonial law and order. International law has, for its own part, been fundamentally constituted by colonialism. And so, it comes as little surprise that “emergency” in its various iterations and vocabularies – emergency powers, states of emergency, emergency derogations, emergency legalities – has served repressive and reactionary functions in international law. The Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) movement has offered important critical accounts of international law's incorporation and deployment of emergency doctrine. TWAIL scholarship helps us to recognise and make sense of the state of emergency as a cipher for a rolling range of reactionary measures – from political imprisonment, racial profiling and border violence to bank bailouts, union-busting and austerity cuts. This chapter touches on several of the key vectors across which TWAIL has confronted the concept of emergency, and introduces the work of some important TWAIL writers and critiques in this area.

Keywords: Emergency; Crisis; Exception; International law; Colonialism; TWAIL (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789901511
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