Completing Humanity: The International Law of Decolonization, 1960-82

Name: Completing Humanity: The International Law of Decolonization, 1960-82
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108447041
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Author: Umut Özsu
ISBN: 9781108447041

By Umut Özsu

Cambridge University Press December 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781108447041
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: December 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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After the Second World War, the dissolution of European empires and emergence of 'new states' in Asia, Africa, Oceania, and elsewhere necessitated large-scale structural changes in international legal order. In Completing Humanity, Umut OEzsu recounts the history of the struggle to transform international law during the twentieth century's last major wave of decolonization. Commencing in 1960, with the General Assembly's landmark decolonization resolution, and concluding in 1982, with the close of the third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea and the onset of the Latin American debt crisis, the book examines the work of elite international lawyers from newly independent states alongside that of international law specialists from 'First World' and socialist states.

A study in modifications to legal theory and doctrine over time, it documents and reassesses post-1945 decolonization from the standpoint of the 'Third World' and the jurists who elaborated and defended its interests.

Introduction

1. Fixing Selves

2. Forging Universals

3. Redistributing Resources

4. Pooling Rights

5. Righting Markets

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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