The Failure of the Nation State and the New International Economic Order: Multiple Converging Crises Present Opportunity to Elaborate a New Jus Gentium
St. Thomas Law Review, Vol. 16, p. 187, Winter 2003
20 Pages Posted: 21 Oct 2007
Abstract
Both the New International Economic Order (NIEO) and the New World Order (NWO) have failed to end poverty in the third world, most notably in Africa. The failure of these two theories, themselves responses to the failure of the Westphalian state system, and the material facts of globalisation present an opportunity to elaborate a new law of nations. Abandoning the Westphalian model is the best way forward, not only because of the technological revolution in the first world, but also for cultural reasons in Africa, where borders almost never correspond to nations.
Keywords: NWO TWAIL Third World Approaches to international law new world order Africa
JEL Classification: K33, K40, K49
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