Ntina Tzouvala
Biographic Data
| ID | 1317869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ntina Tzouvala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ntina |
| FAMILY NAME | Tzouvala |
| SIGNATURE | TZOUVALA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3908-841X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dollar Hegemony as International Law-making Power
The so-called weaponisation of the dollar as part of the escalating geopolitical competition has drawn attention to dollar hegemony within the fields of international law, international relations and political economy alike. This article contributes to discussions about the advantages conferred on the US due to the international role of the dollar and to emerging debates about international law and political economy by demonstrating that dollar h…
International law as a discipline in crisis
One of the most influential international law articles of the past 20 years is entitled ‘International Law: A Discipline of Crisis’. Authored by Hilary Charlesworth in the aftermath of the NATO intervention in Kosovo, the article articulated a compelling feminist critique of the politics, aesthetics and implications of the discipline’s over-emphasis on crises. I revisit Charlesworth’s article with an eye on the field’s profound divisions regardin…
Invested in Whiteness
Using the 2015 arbitral award in von Pezold v. Zimbabwe as its starting point, this piece reflects on the relationship between racial capitalism and international law. Stressing the particularities both of this specific case and of the field of investment arbitration, I nevertheless argue that the tribunal’s finding that Zimbabwe’s land redistribution program had been racially discriminatory against white commercial farmers is symptomatic of broa…
In Defense of Comparisons
While Western imperialism played a crucial role in the creation of modern international law, it is ever more important to analyze the engagements of non-Western imperialist powers with the field so as to comprehend the changing global patterns of legalized violence and expansionism. In this Essay, we analyze Russia's international legal arguments in support of its use of force against Ukraine through the lens of inter-imperial rivalry. In so doin…
International Law and (the Critique of) Political Economy
The purpose of this paper is dual, and it has to do with specificity. First, it aims to show that a "law and political economy" approach to international law has been and will be distinct from its US counterpart. To do so, it offers an overview of both the prevailing approaches to and critical engagements with the field. Having shown that neoliberal hegemony is upheld within international law by an admixture of heterogeneous modes of reasoning, t…
Capitalism As Civilisation
Methodologically and theoretically innovative, this monograph draws from Marxism and deconstruction bringing together the textual and the material in our understanding of international law. Approaching 'civilisation' as an argumentative pattern related to the distribution of rights and duties amongst different communities, Ntina Tzouvala illustrates both its contradictory nature and its pro-capitalist bias. 'Civilisation' is shown to oscillate be…
World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined
The Extraterritoriality of Law
Questions of legal extraterritoriality figure prominently in scholarship on legal pluralism, transnational legal studies, international investment law, international human rights law, state responsibility under international law, and a large number of other areas. Yet many accounts of extraterritoriality make little effort to grapple with its thorny conceptual history, shifting theoretical valence, and complex political roots and ramifications. T…
Extraterritoriality of Law
A false promise? Regulating land-grabbing and the post-colonial state
Since 2008, a global ‘land rush’ has been unfolding and so have efforts by international, national and regional actors to position themselves as the principal authorities in the determination of appropriate usages of land. This article examines three of the most influential ‘soft law’ instruments: the Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment; the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems and; the Voluntary Gu…
These Ancient Arenas of Racial Struggles’
This article revisits the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of national statehood in the Balkans. It traces this transitional process between the Congress of Berlin in 1878 and the United Nations involvement in the Greek Civil War (1946–1949). I show that this transition from empire to the nation-state was overdetermined by the partial and fragmented, yet influential, internationalization of significant questions regarding st…
The political economy of international transitional administration
This article reconstructs how democratic participation and interference can be fended off by the construction of an international authoritarian political architecture and a strongly legalised and specific form of market economy. We do this by interrogating International Territorial Administration (ITA) regulations established to administer post-conflict Kosovo and post-invasion Iraq. In following the regulations and executive decrees of a largely…
New Approaches to International Law
Reflecting upon critical international scholarship and its evolution through time, this review essay \nfocuses on a volume co-edited by José María Beneyto and David Kennedy, along with assistant \neditors, Justo Corti Varela and John Haskell, on the history of the new approaches to international law (NAIL) and the work of David Kennedy. Considering the individual contributions to \nthis book, this essay argues that while the influence of NAIL upo…
TWAIL and the "Unwilling or Unable" Doctrine
Given the long history of violent encounters between the Global North and the Global South, legal arguments concerning the use of force are a fertile ground for testing the virtues and limits of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) as a theory aspiring to "address the material and ethical concerns of Third World peoples." This essay examines the usefulness and limits of TWAIL in the context of the "unwilling or unable" doctrine cur…
In Defense of Comparisons
While Western imperialism played a crucial role in the creation of modern international law, it is ever more important to analyze the engagements of non-Western imperialist powers with the field so as to comprehend the changing global patterns of legalized violence and expansionism. In this Essay, we analyze Russia's international legal arguments in support of its use of force against Ukraine through the lens of inter-imperial rivalry. In so doin…
A false promise? Regulating land-grabbing and the post-colonial state
Since 2008, a global ‘land rush’ has been unfolding and so have efforts by international, national and regional actors to position themselves as the principal authorities in the determination of appropriate usages of land. This article examines three of the most influential ‘soft law’ instruments: the Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment; the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems and; the Voluntary Gu…
International law as a discipline in crisis
One of the most influential international law articles of the past 20 years is entitled ‘International Law: A Discipline of Crisis’. Authored by Hilary Charlesworth in the aftermath of the NATO intervention in Kosovo, the article articulated a compelling feminist critique of the politics, aesthetics and implications of the discipline’s over-emphasis on crises. I revisit Charlesworth’s article with an eye on the field’s profound divisions regardin…
The political economy of international transitional administration
This article reconstructs how democratic participation and interference can be fended off by the construction of an international authoritarian political architecture and a strongly legalised and specific form of market economy. We do this by interrogating International Territorial Administration (ITA) regulations established to administer post-conflict Kosovo and post-invasion Iraq. In following the regulations and executive decrees of a largely…
World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined
These Ancient Arenas of Racial Struggles’
This article revisits the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of national statehood in the Balkans. It traces this transitional process between the Congress of Berlin in 1878 and the United Nations involvement in the Greek Civil War (1946–1949). I show that this transition from empire to the nation-state was overdetermined by the partial and fragmented, yet influential, internationalization of significant questions regarding st…
New Approaches to International Law
Reflecting upon critical international scholarship and its evolution through time, this review essay \nfocuses on a volume co-edited by José María Beneyto and David Kennedy, along with assistant \neditors, Justo Corti Varela and John Haskell, on the history of the new approaches to international law (NAIL) and the work of David Kennedy. Considering the individual contributions to \nthis book, this essay argues that while the influence of NAIL upo…
TWAIL and the "Unwilling or Unable" Doctrine
Given the long history of violent encounters between the Global North and the Global South, legal arguments concerning the use of force are a fertile ground for testing the virtues and limits of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) as a theory aspiring to "address the material and ethical concerns of Third World peoples." This essay examines the usefulness and limits of TWAIL in the context of the "unwilling or unable" doctrine cur…
TWAIL and the "Unwilling or Unable" Doctrine
Given the long history of violent encounters between the Global North and the Global South, legal arguments concerning the use of force are a fertile ground for testing the virtues and limits of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) as a theory aspiring to "address the material and ethical concerns of Third World peoples." This essay examines the usefulness and limits of TWAIL in the context of the "unwilling or unable" doctrine cur…
New Approaches to International Law
Reflecting upon critical international scholarship and its evolution through time, this review essay \nfocuses on a volume co-edited by José María Beneyto and David Kennedy, along with assistant \neditors, Justo Corti Varela and John Haskell, on the history of the new approaches to international law (NAIL) and the work of David Kennedy. Considering the individual contributions to \nthis book, this essay argues that while the influence of NAIL upo…
These Ancient Arenas of Racial Struggles’
This article revisits the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of national statehood in the Balkans. It traces this transitional process between the Congress of Berlin in 1878 and the United Nations involvement in the Greek Civil War (1946–1949). I show that this transition from empire to the nation-state was overdetermined by the partial and fragmented, yet influential, internationalization of significant questions regarding st…
The political economy of international transitional administration
This article reconstructs how democratic participation and interference can be fended off by the construction of an international authoritarian political architecture and a strongly legalised and specific form of market economy. We do this by interrogating International Territorial Administration (ITA) regulations established to administer post-conflict Kosovo and post-invasion Iraq. In following the regulations and executive decrees of a largely…
The Extraterritoriality of Law
Questions of legal extraterritoriality figure prominently in scholarship on legal pluralism, transnational legal studies, international investment law, international human rights law, state responsibility under international law, and a large number of other areas. Yet many accounts of extraterritoriality make little effort to grapple with its thorny conceptual history, shifting theoretical valence, and complex political roots and ramifications. T…
Extraterritoriality of Law
A false promise? Regulating land-grabbing and the post-colonial state
Since 2008, a global ‘land rush’ has been unfolding and so have efforts by international, national and regional actors to position themselves as the principal authorities in the determination of appropriate usages of land. This article examines three of the most influential ‘soft law’ instruments: the Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment; the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems and; the Voluntary Gu…
Capitalism As Civilisation
Methodologically and theoretically innovative, this monograph draws from Marxism and deconstruction bringing together the textual and the material in our understanding of international law. Approaching 'civilisation' as an argumentative pattern related to the distribution of rights and duties amongst different communities, Ntina Tzouvala illustrates both its contradictory nature and its pro-capitalist bias. 'Civilisation' is shown to oscillate be…
World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined
Invested in Whiteness
Using the 2015 arbitral award in von Pezold v. Zimbabwe as its starting point, this piece reflects on the relationship between racial capitalism and international law. Stressing the particularities both of this specific case and of the field of investment arbitration, I nevertheless argue that the tribunal’s finding that Zimbabwe’s land redistribution program had been racially discriminatory against white commercial farmers is symptomatic of broa…
In Defense of Comparisons
While Western imperialism played a crucial role in the creation of modern international law, it is ever more important to analyze the engagements of non-Western imperialist powers with the field so as to comprehend the changing global patterns of legalized violence and expansionism. In this Essay, we analyze Russia's international legal arguments in support of its use of force against Ukraine through the lens of inter-imperial rivalry. In so doin…
International Law and (the Critique of) Political Economy
The purpose of this paper is dual, and it has to do with specificity. First, it aims to show that a "law and political economy" approach to international law has been and will be distinct from its US counterpart. To do so, it offers an overview of both the prevailing approaches to and critical engagements with the field. Having shown that neoliberal hegemony is upheld within international law by an admixture of heterogeneous modes of reasoning, t…
International law as a discipline in crisis
One of the most influential international law articles of the past 20 years is entitled ‘International Law: A Discipline of Crisis’. Authored by Hilary Charlesworth in the aftermath of the NATO intervention in Kosovo, the article articulated a compelling feminist critique of the politics, aesthetics and implications of the discipline’s over-emphasis on crises. I revisit Charlesworth’s article with an eye on the field’s profound divisions regardin…
Dollar Hegemony as International Law-making Power
The so-called weaponisation of the dollar as part of the escalating geopolitical competition has drawn attention to dollar hegemony within the fields of international law, international relations and political economy alike. This article contributes to discussions about the advantages conferred on the US due to the international role of the dollar and to emerging debates about international law and political economy by demonstrating that dollar h…
Political science (12 works) · International law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · International Law and Human Rights (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (4 works)