title: The limits of powerful states : international law's power to influence the behavior of strong states
abstract: While power has been thought to shape international law, we are seeing that international law itself has become a source of power for developing states. This occurs as developing states use international law as a means to affect regional change. Developing states’ reliance on international law, particularly as they form coherent foreign policy against a counter-colonial background, strengthens international law as a process by which developing states express their interests. Gradually, this stre
journal: Texas ScholarWorks (Texas Digital Library)