2015
DOI: 10.1353/hum.2015.0013
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“In the Interests of Mankind as a Whole”: Mohammed Bedjaoui’s New International Economic Order

Abstract: This article revisits the work of Mohammed Bedjaoui, the Algerian jurist and diplomat who played a key role in coordinating efforts to garner support for the NIEO. Focusing on his 1979 study Towards a New International Economic Order, it examines Bedjaoui’s attempt to ground his call for a structural transformation of world order in a sustained defense of legal universalism and closely related critique of legal formalism. Further, it argues that this insistence on a wholesale reconfiguration of international l… Show more

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“…Such deep restructuring explicitly entailed addressing “several orders of hierarchy” pervading the international legal order (Abi-Saab, 1973: 65). Other prominent Third World leaders and scholars echoed this sentiment, including Mohammed Bedjaoui (Özsu, 2015). Borrowing Getachew’s term, for Third World states at this time remaking international law was not just a narrow manipulation of multilateralism to secure instrumental gains, but a broader act of “worldmaking” (Getachew, 2019), reshaping international society by reforming international law away from imperialism and colonialism.…”
Section: The Argumentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such deep restructuring explicitly entailed addressing “several orders of hierarchy” pervading the international legal order (Abi-Saab, 1973: 65). Other prominent Third World leaders and scholars echoed this sentiment, including Mohammed Bedjaoui (Özsu, 2015). Borrowing Getachew’s term, for Third World states at this time remaking international law was not just a narrow manipulation of multilateralism to secure instrumental gains, but a broader act of “worldmaking” (Getachew, 2019), reshaping international society by reforming international law away from imperialism and colonialism.…”
Section: The Argumentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This chapter, which draws on a broader socio-historical analysis of the transnational circuits in which legal ideas about North-South solidarity were formulated, criticized, and reinvented (Ozsu, 2015;Mallard, 2019), identifies three types of legal tensions, which damaged the transformative project of the NIEO from within, and can account for its failure, in the legal realm. First, the ILC members who were put in charge of elaborating the contours of the UN convention proclaiming the NIEO immediately noticed a tension between their role as legal experts in charge of the 'codification' of existing law, and the legislative dimension of their work when tasked to write a new convention.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nor did the EU submit that the relevant conditions in the relevant countries differed significantly.133 See, in particular,Bedjaoui 1979; Anghie 2015, pp. 145-148;Özsu 2015; Venzke 2018, pp. 263- 302.…”
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confidence: 99%