Erasing the Marks of Domination: Economic Sovereignty, Decolonization, and International Lawmaking in the 1950s and 1960s
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Published:2020-12-10
Issue:1
Volume:23
Page:113-136
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ISSN:1388-199X
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Container-title:Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d’histoire du droit international
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language:
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Short-container-title:J. Hist. Int. Law
Affiliation:
1. Associate Professor of History, History Department, Fordham University New York, NY USA
Abstract
Abstract
This article tells a legal and intellectual history of oil and decolonization in the 1950s and 1960s through the projects of international institutions including the UN Permanent Sovereignty Commission and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the work of anti-colonial lawyers Hasan Zakariya and Nicolas Sarkis. It examines the ideas and infrastructure of decolonization as they related to the question of how international law could be used to win economic sovereignty.
Subject
Law,Political Science and International Relations,History