Der Kampf um Rohstoffe im Völkerrecht

Isabel Feichtner

doi:10.5771/0506-7286-2016-1-3

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- 1–2 Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis 1–2
- 3–79 Abhandlungen / Articles 3–79
  - 3–15 Der Kampf um Rohstoffe im Völkerrecht Isabel Feichtner Isabel Feichtner 3–15
  - 16–33 The Debate on the Constructive Vote of No Confidence in India – Trading in Accountability for Stability? Malte Pehl Malte Pehl 16–33
  - 34–52 Ending Meghalaya’s “Deadly Occupation”: India’s National Green Tribunal’s Ban on Rat-Hole Mining Baniateilang Majaw Baniateilang Majaw 34–52
  - 53–79 Police Reform and Preventive Powers of Police in India – Observations on an Unnoticed Problem Clemens Arzt Clemens Arzt 53–79
- 80–104 Berichte / Reports 80–104
  - 80–91 Conference Report: The Battle for International Law in the Decolonization Era Anna Krueger Anna Krueger 80–91
  - 92–104 Starting the Emergency Process: Some Reflections on Presidential Prerogatives in South Africa and Cameroon in Time of Turmoil Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga 92–104
- 105–111 Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews 105–111
  - 105–107 Johannes Seidl, Meinungsfreiheit in der Rechtsprechungspraxis des Interamerikanischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte,Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-16-153339-6, Broschur, 64 Euro Ximena Soley Ximena Soley 105–107
  - 108–111 Colleen M. Flood / Aeyal Gross (Eds.), The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide. A Global Comparative Study, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2014, 512 pages, $120.00 USD, ISBN: 9781107038301. Everaldo Lamprea, Johnattan García Everaldo Lamprea, Johnattan García 108–111
- 112–124 Bibliographie / Bibliography 112–124
  - 112–112 RECHT UND ENTWICKLUNG ALLGEMEIN / LAW AND DEVELOPMENT IN GENERAL 112–112
  - 112–113 AFRIKA / AFRICA 112–113
  - 114–115 ASIEN / ASIA 114–115
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  - 119–124 NAHER UND MITTLERER OSTEN / NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST 119–124
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VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , page 3 - 15

Der Kampf um Rohstoffe im Völkerrecht

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Isabel Feichtner

DOI
- doi.org/10.5771/0506-7286-2016-1-3
- ISSN: 0506-7286
- ISSN online: 2941-9603
Zusammenfassung

This text is an only slightly modified version of the Herbert Krüger Memorial Lecture that I held upon invitation of the Arbeitskreis Überseeische Verfassungsvergleichung on 4 July 2014 at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. My point of departure is the observation that even though the economic exploitation of natural resources triggers a multitude of distribution conflicts, international and transnational law treat these conflicts inadequately. While the New International Economic Order had as one of its objectives distributional justice between resource exporting poor states (former colonies) and resource importing high income states (mostly former imperial powers) its demands were never fully realized. Instead a transnational economic law emerged which can be interpreted as itself establishing a distribution order -- albeit a distribution order that is not oriented towards distributional justice, but rather posits the market as the best distribution device. This distribution order has depoliticized and deterritorialized distribution conflicts between resource exporting and resource importing states and has secured - through the promotion of privatizations, protection of foreign investments and dismantling of trade barriers - access to resources for the resource importing states. At the same time it has freed importing states from responsibility for the harms that accrue from resource exploitation to the resource exporting states and their populations. I call in this text for a repoliticization of distribution conflicts at the international as well as the (trans)national level, a repoliticization that may be achieved not only through the reform of political, but also economic institutions.

Abstract

This text is an only slightly modified version of the Herbert Krüger Memorial Lecture that I held upon invitation of the Arbeitskreis Überseeische Verfassungsvergleichung on 4 July 2014 at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. My point of departure is the observation that even though the economic exploitation of natural resources triggers a multitude of distribution conflicts, international and transnational law treat these conflicts inadequately. While the New International Economic Order had as one of its objectives distributional justice between resource exporting poor states (former colonies) and resource importing high income states (mostly former imperial powers) its demands were never fully realized. Instead a transnational economic law emerged which can be interpreted as itself establishing a distribution order -- albeit a distribution order that is not oriented towards distributional justice, but rather posits the market as the best distribution device. This distribution order has depoliticized and deterritorialized distribution conflicts between resource exporting and resource importing states and has secured - through the promotion of privatizations, protection of foreign investments and dismantling of trade barriers - access to resources for the resource importing states. At the same time it has freed importing states from responsibility for the harms that accrue from resource exploitation to the resource exporting states and their populations. I call in this text for a repoliticization of distribution conflicts at the international as well as the (trans)national level, a repoliticization that may be achieved not only through the reform of political, but also economic institutions.
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