Johns on Critical International Legal Theory @FleurEJ

Fleur Johns, University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law, is publishing Critical International Legal Theory in International Legal Theory: Foundations and Frontiers (Jeffrey L. Dunoff and Mark A. Pollack, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2019, Forthcoming)). Here is the abstract. This chapter presents an account of three phases of writing and practice in critical international legal theory, after first identifying some braided historico-political fuel lines for these cycles of work. These phases correspond to successive periods of revisionism: a pre-1989 reckoning (dating from the mid-late 1970s) with the non-materialization of the promises of socialist revolution and the disappointments of the cosmopolitan, decolonization, and development projects; a 1989 to 1999 reckoning with the apparent triumph of liberalism/neo-liberalism and the Washington Consensus; and a current phase, dating from approximately the turn of the millennium, of reckoning with the post-Washington…

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