International Law from Below :development, social movements and third world resitance
- 1st ed.
- New Delhi Cambridge University Press 2005
- xvi, 343p
This analysis of international law using social movement theory provides a fundamental critique of modern international law. Rajagopal suggests that with transnational/local social movement action becoming increasingly central - witnessed in Seattle in 1999 - a law-based global order must take the resistance of social movements more seriously.