Infrastructural developmentalism and its many types of global law: a comparative look at the UN Sustainable Development Goals and China’s Belt and Road Initiative

IF 0.8 Q2 LAW London Review of International Law Pub Date : 2022-10-28 DOI:10.1093/lril/lrac017
Alejandro Rodiles
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We are currently witnessing the evolution of two gigantic development programmes: the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Perceived and real differences notwithstanding, both place infrastructures at the heart of global development. The present article analyses the relations between this new developmental thinking and law. The fluid rearrangement of public and private, formal and informal legal frameworks spurred by BRI indicate the emergence of a transnational legal infrastructure both tied to and facilitated by a material pragmatism at odds with China’s rhetorical embracement of international law as we know it. The implementation infrastructure of SDGs, for its part, reveals a resilience-driven style of governance difficult to reconcile with the futurity attaching to the idea of law. While these findings would suggest a retreat from international law, the present article argues that many types of global law are emerging and resurfacing from infrastructural developmentalism.
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基础设施发展主义及其多种类型的国际法:联合国可持续发展目标与中国“一带一路”倡议的比较研究
目前,我们正在见证两大发展计划的演变:联合国可持续发展目标(sdg)和中国的“一带一路”倡议(BRI)。尽管存在明显的和实际的差异,但两者都将基础设施置于全球发展的核心。本文分析了这种新的发展思想与法律的关系。“一带一路”推动的公共和私人、正式和非正式法律框架的流动重新安排表明,一种跨国法律基础设施的出现,既与物质实用主义联系在一起,又受到这种实用主义的推动,而这种实用主义与我们所知的中国对国际法的口头拥抱不一致。就可持续发展目标的实施基础设施而言,它揭示了一种弹性驱动的治理风格,很难与法律理念所附带的未来相协调。虽然这些调查结果可能表明对国际法的退却,但本文认为,许多类型的国际法正在从基础设施发展主义中出现和重新出现。
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