Free Flow of Information

Hegemony, Contestation, and International Law

AvWanshu Cong

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-08-31
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Antal sidor:260
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009584937

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Juridisk teknik inom Juridik
Folkrätt inom Juridik
Internationell rätt: transport och handel inom Juridik

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Dr. Wanshu Cong is lecturer the Australian National University Law School. She is a generalist public international law scholar whose work draws heavily from Marxist legal theory, critical media studies, and heterodox political economy. Her work has been published in leading international law journals and was awarded Asian Society of International Law Young Scholar Prize (third prize) in 2023.

Innehållsförteckning

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'?; Bibliography; Index.