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

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

Name: Free Flow of Information: Hegemony, Contestation, and International Law
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009584951
Price: 529.62 HKD
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Author: Wanshu Cong
ISBN: 9781009584951

By Wanshu Cong

New Arrival Cambridge University Press July 2026

Specifications

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

Details

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.

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'?

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