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Free Flow of Information: Hegemony, Contestation, and International Law

By Wanshu Cong
Coming Soon Cambridge University Press Available August 2026

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ISBN-13
9781009584951
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
August 2026
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The book offers a critical history of how international law governs information to entrench unequal distribution of wealth and power since the end of World War II. Mapping doctrinal and institutional developments of various subfields in international law that concern the organization of cross-border information flow, this book identifies a dual-sided framework consisting human rights and free trade as a hegemonic framework for the governance of information. Drawing on Marxist legal theory, Third World Approaches to International Law, critical media studies, and heterodox political economy, the book argues that this framework, despite persistent internal contradictions and external contestations, has evolved to facilitate the expansion of capital and reproduce hierarchy throughout three eras of capitalist transformations of the past eight decades.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. 'Free flow of information' in the postwar world order: an early intimation of the dual-sided framework
2. Contesting 'free flow of information' in the cold war era: the third world discontent and inter-capitalist struggle
3. Information flow on the cusp of the neoliberal globalization: the liberalization of telecommunications
4. Human rights and the 'free flow of information' in the internet age
5. 'Free flow' in the digital age: data governance and the maturation of the dual-sided framework
6. The liberal world order and the end of 'free flow'?
Bibliography
Index
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