From the ‘semi-civilized state’ to the ‘emerging market’: remarks on the international legal history of the semi-periphery1

Umut Özsu

Chapter 11 in Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy, 2025, pp 177-190 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines different ways of conceptualizing semi-peripheral power and authority in international political, economic and legal relations. Drawing upon world-systems theory, it considers three ideological tropes that have been used to capture the ‘intermediate’ status ascribed to politico-economically weak states that have managed to avoid direct incorporation into the formal architectures of Euro-American empire: the late 19th-century attribution of ‘semi-civilized’ status to a specific class of extra-European states; the reliance by many Cold War jurists upon the notion of a socialist ‘Second World’; and the current preoccupation, as legal as it is political and economic, with so-called ‘emerging markets’.

Keywords: BRICS; Capitalism; Civilization; International law; Semi-periphery; World-systems theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803921181
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