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About the Book: Third World Attitude Towards International Law

Third World Attitude towards International Law attempts to lookafresh at the history of colonial international law, engageprevious trends in third world international law, take cognizanceof the dramatic changes which have characterized the body ofinternational law in the last few decades from the perspective ofthird world peoples, record their resistance to unjust andoppressive international laws and advance new approaches thataddress their needs and concerns.

The objective would be to regain economic and social space forindependent and self reliant development of third world countriesand to establish a democratic and just world order. One of the mostdramatic developments in international law has been the growth oflaws focusing on the individual, which provide protection andrequire accountability whereas in the past, international lawfocused primarily on regulating state behavior and defining statesrights, it has increasingly been involved in identifying rights andholding individuals accountable and this trend began after worldwar II.