Development, International Law and the State

We often think about corporations in relation to resource extraction, capital accumulation and global inequality, but where does the postcolonial state come in? How does international law shape these processes, and how can we think about dependency and intervention in the contested global economic order?

This is a chapter written by Luis Eslava, Caitlin Murphy and Sundhya Pahuja for a Handbook on International Law and Development. Read the full chapter on our publications page.