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  • 4 - Comparative Foreign Relations Law between Center and Periphery

  • from Part I - Identities and Interaction
  • Edited by Helmut Philipp Aust, Freie Universität Berlin, Thomas Kleinlein, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
  • Book:
    Encounters between Foreign Relations Law and International Law
    Published online:
    20 May 2021
    Print publication:
    03 June 2021, pp 60-85
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    This paper contrasts two different perspective on foreign relations law, one that developed in liberal democracies at the centre of geopolitical gravity, and one shaped by the postcolonial contexts and historical experiences of countries at the periphery of the global political economy. It argues that taking into account the peripheral perspective not only pluralizes comparative foreign relations law and thus makes it more representative. It might also help understand contemporary transformations of foreign relations law in Western liberal democracies, as these legal orders become less centric and more peripheral in a new multipolar geopolitical context. The contrasts between the different legal paradigms come into sharp relief in the legal treatment of transnational corporations, whose socio-legal reality questions categorical distinctions between international and national, political and economic, state and individual.