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The Political Economy of Desire International Law, Development and the Nation State
By Jennifer Beard
Copyright 2007
224 Pages
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224 Pages
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224 Pages
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Containing the best interdisciplinary work in international law, this book offers an intelligent and thought-provoking analysis of the genealogy of Western capitalist ‘development’. Putting forth ground-breaking arguments and challenging the traditional boundaries of thinking about the concept of development and underdevelopment, it provides readers with a new perspective on the West's... Read more
Introduction. Writing Development as Desire. Faith Through Understanding. The Age is Broken Down. 'The Sovereignty of Man Lieth Hid in Knowledge'. The Peace of Westphalia: Words, Writings and Outrageous Actions. The Art of Development
Biography
Jennifer Beard, BA (Hons), LLB (Hons), LLM, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the Law School of the University of Melbourne. She is Co-Director of the Law and Development Programme for the Institute for International Law and the Humanities, as well as a barrister of the Victorian Bar.
"The Political Economy of Desire should be required reading for law and development scholars and students as an introduction to why – and how – we might think about need, desire, justice and want outside of the development/underdevelopment binary." - Doris Buss, Carleton University, Social & Legal Studies, vol. 18, no. 4 (December 2009)
