1.Introduction&Richard Falk， Balakrishnan Rajagopal & Jacqueline Stevens 1
2.What may the ‘Third World’ expect from International Law？&Upendra Baxi 9
3.International Law and the Future&Richard Falk 23
4.The Evolution of International Law： colonial and postcolonial realities&Antony Anghie 35
5.Recreating the State&Jacqueline Stevens 51
6.Counter-hegemonic International Law： rethinking human rights and development as a Third World strategy&Balakrishnan Rajagopal 63
7.Why should Muslims abandon Jihad？ Human rights and the future of international law&Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im 81
8.Poverty， Agency and Resistance in the Future of International Law： an African perspective&Obiora Chinedu Okafor 95
9.Between Civilisation and Barbarism： Creole interventions in international law&Liliana Obregon 111
10.’I Heard it All Before’： Egyptian tales of law and development &Amr Shalakany 129
11.The Civilised Self and the Barbaric Other： imperial delusions of order and the challenges of human security&Ikechi Mgbeoji 151
12.Political Asylum and Torture： a comparative analysis&Wadie E Said 167
13.International Environmental Law， Water and the Future&Hilal Elver 181
14.Resistance in the Age of Empire： occupied discourse pending investigation&Vasuki Nesiah 199
15.Exiled to a Liminal Legal Zone： are we all Palestinians now？&Laurie King-Irani 219
16.Building Women into Peace： the international legal framework&Christine Chinkin & Hilary Charlesworth 233
17.Third World Approaches to International Economic Governance&James Thuo Gathii 255
Index 269