O DIREITO INTERNACIONAL E AS ABORDAGENS DO “TERCEIRO MUNDO”: CONTRIBUIÇÕES DA TEORIA CRÍTICA DO DIREITO

The purpose of this article is to stimulate a critical reflection on central concepts of international law by throwing some light on colonizing historical continuities that remain subjacent to its construction. Relying on critical theory, it proposes a questioning of non-declared premises that sustain the international legal system, which is here understood through the point of view of the political movement of the “Third World”. The critical theory generally sees international law as an expression of the contradictions of international politics and, in its prognostics, founds itself on a material subversion of the system: a movement that comes from the very contradictions of the political reality. This research delineates some of the contributions of this system of thought to the construction of international law, especially with regard to the inclusion of historically excluded subjects as participants in international decision processes, with a view to produce in the international community a new framework of relations and interactions among all the subjects that are part of it.