Toward a Marxist Theory of International Law: An Introductory Bibliography

Patrick S. O’Donnell (2018)

Not all of the titles here are by avowed Marxists; those that are not were included for their
possible implications for a Marxist Theory of International Law. As with most of my
bibliographies, two constraints are conspicuous: books only, in English. This compilation
should be viewed in conjunction with the following bibliographies:

(i) Beyond Capitalist Agribusiness: Toward Agroecology & Food Justice; (ii) Democratic Theory;
(iii) Global Distributive Justice; (iv) Human Rights; (v) International Law; (vi) Marx and
Marxism; (vii) Philosophy of Law & Legal Theory; and (viii) Workers, the World of Work, and
Labor Law.

 Aginam, Obijiofor. Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a
Divided World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
 Alessandrini, Donatella. Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trade Regime: The Failure
and Promise of the WTO’s Development Mission. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing, 2010.
 Amin, Samir. Accumulation on a World Scale: A Critique of the Theory of Underdevelopment.
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974.
 Amin, Samir. Unequal Development. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1976.

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 Amin, Samir. Imperialism and Unequal Development. New York: Monthly Review Press,
1977.
 Amin, Samir. Eurocentrism. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2nd ed., 2009.
 Amin, Samir. Global History: A View from the South. Cape Town: Pambazuka Press/Dakar:
CODESRIA/Bangalore: Books for Change, 2011.
 Anderson, Kevin B. Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western
Societies. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016 ed.
 Anghie, Antony. Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Making of International Law. Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
 Anghie, Antony, Bhupinder Chimni, Karin Mickelson, and Obiora Okafor, eds. The Third
World and International Order: Law, Politics and Globalization. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff,
2004.
 Aoki, Keith. Seed Wars: Controversies and Cases on Plant Genetic Resources and Intellectual
Property. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2008.
 Appiah, Kwame Anthony. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. New York:
W.W. Norton, 2006.
 Archibugi, Daniele, ed. Debating Cosmopolitics. London: Verso, 2003.
 Babb, Sarah. Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the
Wealth of Nations. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
 Bardhan, Pranab. International Trade, Growth, and Development: Essays. Malden, MA:
Blackwell, 2003.
 Bardhan, Pranab. Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation: Essays in the Political and Institutional
Economics of Development. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.
 Bardhan, Pranab, Samuel Bowles and Michael Wallerstein, eds. Globalization and
Egalitarian Distribution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press/New York: Russell
Sage Foundation, 2006.
 Barrett, Michele. Women’s Oppression Today: Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis.
London: Verso, 1980.
 Barry, Brian and Robert E. Goodin, ed. Free Movement: Ethical Issues in the Transnational
Migration of People and of Money. University Park, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press,
1992.
 Barry, Christian and Thomas W. Pogge, eds. Global Institutions and Responsibilities:
Achieving Social Justice. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
 Barry, Christian and Gerhard Øverland. Responding to Global Poverty: Harm,
Responsibility, and Agency. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
 Beirne, Piers and Richard Quinney, eds. Marxism and Law. New York: John Wiley &
Sons, 1982.
 Bello, Walden. The Food Wars. London: Verso, 2009.
 Bernstein, Henry, et al., eds. The Food Question: Profits versus People. New York: Monthly
Review Press, 1990.
 Birkbeck, Carolyn Deere, eds. Making Global Trade Governance Work for Development:
Perspectives and Priorities from Developing Countries. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2011.

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 Brenner, Johanna. Women and the Politics of Class. New York: Monthly Review Press,
2000.
 Brewer, Anthony. Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical Survey. New York: Routledge,
2nd ed., 1990.
 Brighouse, Harry and Ingrid Robeyns, eds. Measuring Justice: Primary Goods and
Capabilities. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
 Buchanan, Allen. Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for
International Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
 Burkett, Paul. Marxism and Ecological Economics: Toward a Red and Green Political Economy.
Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2009.
 Burkett, Paul. Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective. Chicago, IL: Haymarket
Books, 2014.
 Byers, Michael, ed. The Role of Law in International Politics: Essays in International Relations
and International Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
 Cain, Maureen Elizabeth and Alan Hunt. Marx and Engels on Law. London: Academic
Press, 1979.
 Cassese, Antonio. Realizing Utopia: The Future of International Law. Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press, 2012.
 Chang, Ha-Joon. Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Economic Policy Manual. London:
Zed Books, 2004.
 Chang, Ha-Joon. Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism.
New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008.
 Charles, Daniel. Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food. New York;
Basic Books, 2002.
 Chibber, Vivek. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital. London: Verso, 2013.
 Chimni, B.S. International Law and World Order: A Critique of Contemporary Approaches.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed., 2017.
 Clapp, Jennifer. Hunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid. Ithaca,
NY: Cornell University Press, 2012.
 Clapp, Jennifer and Doris Fuchs, eds. Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.
 Cohen, G.A. Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defense. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 2000, expanded ed. (1978).
 Collins, Hugh. Marxism and Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
 Cooper, Frederick, et al. Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist
World System. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.
 Crawford, James and Martti Koskenniemi, eds. The Cambridge Companion to International
Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
 Crocker, David A. Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability, and Deliberative
Democracy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
 Dasgupta, Partha. An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1993.

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 d’Aspremont, Jean. Epistemic Forces in International Law: Foundational Doctrines and
Techniques of International Legal Argumentation. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar
Publishing, 2015.
 Davis, Angela Y. Women, Race, and Class. New York: Vintage Press, 1983.
 De Greiff, Pablo and Ciaran Cronin, eds. Global Justice and Transnational Politics.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.
 Devereux, Stephen, ed. The New Famines: Why Famines Persist in an Era of Globalization.
New York: Routledge, 2007.
 Drèze, Jean and Amartya Sen. Hunger and Public Action. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press,
1989.
 Drèze, Jean, Amartya Sen and Athar Hussain, eds. The Political Economy of Hunger.
Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1995.
 Easton, Susan, ed. Marx and Law. New York: Routledge, 2008.
 Elster, Jon and Karl Ove Moene, eds. Alternatives to Capitalism. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 1989.
 Falk, Richard A. The Promise of World Order: Essays in Normative International Relations.
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1987.
 Falk, Richard A. Revitalizing International Law. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press,
1989.
 Falk, Richard A. On Humane Governance: Toward a New Global Politics. University Park,
PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.
 Falk, Richard A., Mark Juergensmeyer, and Vesselin Popovski, eds. Legality and
Legitimacy in Global Affairs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
 Farmer, Paul. Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 1999.
 Farmer, Paul, Jim Yong Kim, Arthur Kleinman, and Matthew Basilico, eds. Reimagining
Global Health: An Introduction. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013.
 Fine, Bob, et al., eds. Capitalism and the Rule of Law: From Deviance Theory to Marxism.
London: Hutchinson, 1979.
 Franck, Thomas M. Fairness in International Law and Institutions. Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press, 1995.
 Frankel, Francine R. India’s Green Revolution: Economic Gains and Political Costs. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971.
 Glaeser, Bernhard, ed. The Green Revolution Revisited: critique and alternatives. New York:
Routledge, 2011 (1987).
 Godoy, Angelina Snodgrass. Of Medicines and Markets: Intellectual Property and Human
Rights in the Free Trade Era. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013.
 Goodin, Robert E., Bruce Headey, Rudd Muffels, and Henk-Jan Dirven. The Real Worlds
of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
 Gosseries, Axel, Alain Marciano, and Alain Strowel, eds. Intellectual Property and Theories
of Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
 Gostin, Lawrence O. Global Health Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.

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 Griffin, Keith. The Political Economy of Agrarian Change: An Essay on the Green Revolution.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974.
 Grusky, David B. and Ravi Kanbur, eds. Poverty and Inequality. Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 2006.
 Head, Michael. Evgeny Pashukanis: A Critical Reappraisal. New York: Routledge-
Cavendish, 2008.
 Hennessy, Rosemary and Chrys Ingraham, eds. Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class,
Difference, and Women’s Lives. New York: Routledge, 1997.
 Hepple, Bob. Labour Laws and Global Trade. Portland, OR: Hart, 2005.
 Hirst, Paul. On Law and Ideology. London: Macmillan, 1979.
 Holmstrom, Nancy, ed. The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Reader in Theory and
Politics. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2002.
 James, C.L.R. A History of Pan-African Revolt. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2012. [This book
was originally published as The History of the Negro Revolt in 1938 (London: Independent
Labour Party). As Christian Høgsbjerg informs us, it was republished with a new
epilogue by James in 1969 with the current title ‘by Drum and Spear Press, a new Pan-
Africanist collective of former civil-rights activists based around a bookstore in
Washington, DC.’]
 James, Leslie. George Padmore and Decolonization from Below: Pan-Africanism, the Cold War,
and the End of Empire. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
 Karatani, Kōjin (Michael K. Bourdaghs, tr.) The Structure of World History: From Modes of
Production to Modes of Exchange. Duke University Press, 2014.
 Kennedy, Duncan. A Critique of Adjudication (fin de siècle). Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1997.
 Koskenniemi, Martti. The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law,
1870-1960. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
 Koskenniemi, Martti. From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal
Argument. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
 Koskenniemi, Martti. The Politics of International Law. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing, 2011.
 MacKinnon, Catherine A. Toward a Feminist Theory of the State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1989.
 Magdoff, Fred, John Bellamy Foster, and Frederick H. Buttel, eds. Hungry for Profit: The
Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment. New York: Monthly Review
Press, 2000.
 Magdoff, Fred and Brian Tokar, eds. Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and
Renewal. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2010.
 Marks, Susan. The Riddle of All Constitutions: International Law, Democracy, and the Critique
of Ideology. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000.
 Marks, Susan, ed. International Law on the Left: Re-examining Marxist Legacies. Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
 Marmot, Michael and Richard G. Wilkinson, eds. Social Determinants of Health. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2006.

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 Mgbeoji, Ikechi. Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge. Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 2006.
 Mies, Maria. Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale. London: Zed Books, 1986.
 Mieville, China. Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law. Chicago, IL:
Haymarket Books, 2006.
 Mintz, Sidney W. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York:
Penguin Books, 1985.
 Nazarea, Virginia D., Robert E. Rhoades, and Jenna Andrews-Swann, eds. Seeds of
Resistance, Seeds of Hope: Place and Agency in the Conservation of Biodiversity. Tucson, AZ:
University of Arizona Press, 2013.
 Noonan, Murray. Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A History. London: I.B. Tauris & Co.,
2017.
 Nussbaum, Martha C. Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
 O’Connell, Mary Ellen. The Power and Purpose of International Law. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2008.
 Offe, Claus. Contradictions of the Welfare State. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984.
 Offe, Claus. Disorganized Capitalism: Contemporary Transformations of Work and Politics.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985.
 Okin, Susan Moller. Gender, Justice and the Family. New York: Basic Books, 1989.
 Paige, Jeffrey M. Agrarian Revolution. New York: The Free Press, 1975.
 Pashukanis, Evgeny B. The General Theory of Law and Marxism. New Brunswick, NJ:
Transaction, (3rd ed., 1927) 2001.
 Pashukanis, Evgeny B. (Peter B. Maggs, tr.; Piers Beirne and Robert Sharlet, eds.) Selected
Writings on Marxism and Law. London: Academic Press, 1980.
 Patel, Raj. Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. Brooklyn, NY:
Melville House, 2008.
 Pearse, Andrew. Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Want. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
 Perkins, John H. Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
 Prashad, Vijay. The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. London: Verso,
2012.
 Przeworski, Adam. Capitalism and Social Democracy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 1985.
 Przeworski, Adam and John Sprague. Paper Stones: A History of Electoral Socialism.
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
 Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements, and
Third World Resistance. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
 Robinson, Cedric J. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. London: Zed
Books, 1983.
 Robinson, William I. A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and State in a
Transnational World. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

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 Rose, Hilary and Steven Rose. Genes, Cells and Brains: Bioscience’s Promethean Promises.
Verso, 2012.
 Ross, Eric B. The Malthus Factor: Poverty, Politics, and Population in Capitalist Development.
London: Zed Books, 1998.
 Rosset, Peter M. and Miguel A. Altieri. Agroecology: Science and Politics. Black Point,
Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing, 2017.
 Saad-Filho, Alfredo and Deborah Johnston, eds. Neoliberalism: A Critical Reader. London:
Pluto Press, 2005.
 Santilli, Juliana. Agrobiodiversity and the Law: Regulating Genetic Resources, Food Security,
and Cultural Diversity. New York: Earthscan, 2012.
 Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, ed. Another Production is Possible: Beyond the Capitalist
Canon. London: Verso, 2007.
 Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, ed. Democratizing Democracy: Beyond the Liberal Democratic
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 Santos, Boaventura de Sousa and Cesar A. Rodriguez-Garavito, eds. Law and
Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
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 Sartre, Jean-Paul (Azzedine Haddour, Steve Brewer, and Terry McWilliams, tr.)
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 Sen, Amartya. Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation. New York:
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 Sen, Gita and Caren Grown. Development, Crises and Alternative Visions. New York:
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Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984.
 Shaikh, Anwar. Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2016.
 Shaikh, Anwar, ed. Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade: History, Theory and Empirical
Evidence. New York: Routledge, 2013.
 Taiwo, Olufemi. Legal Naturalism: A Marxist Theory of Law. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 1996.
 Therborn, Göran. The Killing Fields of Inequality. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2013.
 Tigar, Michael E. and Madeleine R. Levy. Law and the Rise of Capitalism. New York:
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 Unger, Roberto Mangabeira. Law in Modern Society: Toward a Criticism of Social Theory.
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Dimension of Development: Indigenous Knowledge Systems. London: Intermediate
Technology Group, 1995.

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 Weeks, Kathi. The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwar Politics, and Postwork
Imaginaries. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.
 Winders, Bill. The Politics of Food Supply: U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
 Winders, Bill. Grains. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2017.
 Wolff, Jonathan and Avner de-Shalit. Disadvantage. New York: Oxford University Press,
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 Woods, Ngaire. The Globalizers: The IMF, The World Bank, and Their Borrowers. Ithaca, NY:
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