International Law in Brazil – The Unjustifiable Roots of the Absence of Critical Debate

Abstract

This paper intends to present the debate that is made of international law from a critical perspective adopted by the academic movement known as Third Word Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). TWAIL challenges the theoretical and practical bases of international law by tracing its foundations in European imperial expansion and Third World colonization to the more modern forms of submission embedded in the universalism and rationalism that permeate international institutions, thereby propagating the exclusion of visions of the world that do not align with those prevailing in the traditional spaces of production of international law. The central argument of this work is that the critical debates of international law are non-existent, making their teaching a mere propagation of European and Christian ideals and devoid of reflection based on the experiences of Brazil. The methodology adopted is hypothetical-deductive, and the technique of research is the analysis of networks with the help of software Publish or Perish and VOSViewer.

Keywords: International Law; teaching, TWAIL