Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction or a prelude to stories of an ambivalent relationship / Mohammad Shahabuddin -- Glimpses of international law discourse / Borhan Uddin Khan & Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman -- Framework of engagement with international law / Farhaan Uddin Ahmed -- Judicial invocation of international law / Abdullah Al Faruque -- Involvements in international courts & tribunals / Abdullah Al Faruque -- Customary international law / Emraan Azad -- The law of treaties and treaty reservations / Md. Al-Ifran Hosain Mollah -- Territory, people, and self-determination / K. M. Shazzad Mohashin -- Citizenship and statelessness / Naureen Rahim -- Natural resources / Md. Lokman Hussain -- International watercourse law / Md. Nazrul Islam -- Marine resources and the blue economy / Tahsin Khan -- International environmental law / Mohammad Golam Sarwar -- Climate change and human mobility / Mostafa Mahmud Naser -- Sustainable development / Md. Abu Bakar Siddique -- Intellectual property rights and other trade & development challenges / Shawkat Alam -- LDC graduation and WTO challenges / Md. Abu Saleh & Muhammad Omar Faruque -- International investment agreements / Ferdous Rahman -- International criminal law : historical perspectives / Quazi Omar Foysal -- Substantive law of the international crimes tribunal (Bangladesh) / M. Rafiqul Islam -- Crimes against humanity and the principle of legality / M. Sanjeeb Hossain -- Women and a national imaginary / Psymhe Wadud -- Rohingya refugees / Md. Mostafa Hosain -- Religious minorities / Tapas Baul & Priyanka Bose Kanta -- Indigenous peoples & ethnic minorities / Mohammad Shahabuddin -- Readymade garment workers and inchoate compensation rights / Taqbir Huda -- Slum dwellers and forced evictions / S. M. Atia Naznin -- Voices of dissent / Tashmia Sabera.

"This book is the first-ever comprehensive analysis of international law from Global South perspectives with specific reference to Bangladesh. The book not only sheds new light on classical international law concepts, such as statehood, citizenship, and self-determination, but also covers more current issues including Rohingya refugees, climate change, sustainable development, readymade garment workers and crimes against humanity. Written by area specialists, the book explores how international law shaped Bangladesh state practice over the last five decades; how Bangladesh in turn contributed to the development of international law; and the manner in which international law is also used as a hegemonic tool for marginalising less powerful countries like Bangladesh. By analysing stories of an ambivalent relationship between international law and post-colonial states, the book exposes the duality of international law as both a problem-solving tool and as a language of hegemony. Despite its focus on Bangladesh, the book deals with the more general problem of post-colonial states' problematic relationship with international law and so will be of interest to students and scholars of international law in general, as well as those interested in the Global South and South Asia in particular"--

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Nuri Mahajabi