Apoorva Anubhuti has a paper on the “Americanisation of International Law.” Her thesis is that “International law has become the principal language in which domination is being expressed in the era of globalisation.” She examines three different ways in which this is accomplished by the American empire: militarily (think Iraq and Afghanistan); bargaining/blackmail (think World Bank, EU, IMF, WTO, and bilateral investment treaties using the Hull doctrine); and consensually/hegemonically (think adopting American legal conventions as in Article 51 in the Law of Sea Convention).

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