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46 Harv. Int'l L.J. 389 (2005)
Alternative Visions of Just World Order: Six Tales from India

handle is hein.journals/hilj46 and id is 395 raw text is: VOLUME 46, NUMBER 2, SUMMER 2005 Alternative Visions of Just World Order: Six Tales from India B.S. Chimni* This Article outlines six distinct visions of just world order reflected in re- cent academic and political discourse in India. These perspectives may be designated as establishment, left, Dalit, subaltern, anti-modernist, and spiri- tual. Each of these perspectives offers a certain understanding of the state, society, globalization, and international institutions. These different perspec- tives, in the absence of any systematic and concerted new thinking in the literature on international law and institutions, are germane to understand- ing the response of the Indian state and people to issues relating to global- ization, international law, and international institutions.' It is also impor- tant to turn to these perspectives because both the globalization process and the growing role of international law and institutions have compelled politi- cal forces and social thinkers to engage in discussion on issues such as sover- eignty, trade, use of force, human rights, and the meaning of a just world order in general. Since these perspectives now address themes central to in- ternational law and institutions, they provide rich critical resources not only to think through alternative strategies to establish a just world order, but also to conceptualize its contours and content. While five of the six perspectives are contemporary, the spiritual perspec- tive of Sri Aurobindo was articulated primarily in the colonial period but has been included because it was among the first to deal with world-order issues and the creation of a world state. It has also been discussed to emphasize the need for ethical practices in any strategy of complex internationalism to create a just world order. * Professor B.S. Chimni is vice-chancellor of the WB National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata, India. 1. While I have attempted in my own writings to offer new thinking on international law and in- stitutions, it is for others to judge whether these qualify as such. See, e.g., B.S. Chimni, An Outline of a Marxist Course on Public International Law, 17 LEIDEN J. INT'L LA, 1-30 (2004); B. S. Chimni, Interna- tional Institutions Today: An Imperial Global State in the Making, 1 EUR. J. INT'L L. 1, 1-39 (2004). It may be mentioned that the old thinking is associated with the writings of scholars such as R.P. Anand and Judge Nagendra Singh. For a brief critical review of old thinking see B. S. Chimni, Teaching, Research and Promotion of International Law in India: Past, Present and Future, 5 SING. J. INT'L & COMP. L. 368 (2001).

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