Cover; Decolonising International Law; CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; I The project; II The structure; Chapter 2 Inaugurating a new rationality; I The new international institutions; 1 Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco; 2 Bretton Woods, a 'monstrous monkey-house'24; 3 The split between the economic and the political; The constructed separation; Differential institutional control; II Theorising international law; 1 The critical instability of international law; The postcoloniality of international law. The politics of international law2 The transcendent grounds of development and economic growth; 3 The politics of universality; III Conclusion; Chapter 3 From decolonisation to developmental nation state; I Introduction; II Dumbarton Oaks, San Francisco and (almost the end of) Empire; III 'Backwardness' and the logic of the nation state; IV The Truman plan and the onset of the Cold War; V 'Out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight'95; VI Decolonisation and the decade for development; VII Conclusion; Chapter 4 From permanent sovereignty to investor protection; I Introduction. II The post-imperial contextIII Seek ye first the political kingdom; IV The transcendent positioning of development; V PSNR at the United Nations: nationalisation as strategy; 1 Commodification; 2 The split between the economic and the political; 3 The transcendence of economic growth; VI West as world: (re)producing the international; 1 Prefigurings; 2 West as world in the claim to PSNR; World (community); Historicism and destiny; Compensation; VII Resolution through conditionality; VIII Conclusion; Chapter 5 Development and the rule of (international) law; I Introduction. II From the rule of international law to the internationalisation of the rule of lawIII The rule of law as development strategy; 1 An implicit reliance on the development narrative; 2 The explicit engagement of development; 3 Development and its relation to law; IV Law, development and the critique of positivism; V Contesting the meaning of the rule of law; 1 The Mystery of Capital; 2 Development as Freedom; 3 Politics and economics come together in law-in-development; VI Widening the pedagogical purview and subordinating politics to economics. 1 Legitimising regulatory expansion in the Third World2 Economics imperialism; 3 The instrumentalisation of law and rights to normative hegemony; Safety and Sameness; The dangers of instrumentalisation; VII Conclusion; Chapter 6 Conclusion; I Exposition; II Extension; III Envoi; Appendix one: a note on the use of 'Third World'; Appendix two: Harry Truman
inaugural address; Bibliography; Index

Sundhya Pahuja explores how the concept of development forecloses international law's promise of global justice