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New Book: "The Pathology of Plenty, Natural Resources in International Law"

The Pathology of Plenty

Natural Resources in International Law

Lys Kulamadayil

This open access book argues that international law impacts on the resource curse, but that this impact can be unexpected and unpredictable. It illustrates how the law’s role in resource-cursed countries is at once constitutive, preventive, remedial and punitive. The author draws on different fields of public international law to show how law can be both implicated in, and responsive to, the resource curse.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Lys Kulamadayil is Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

May 2025   |   9781509969623   |   208pp   |   Hbk   |    RRP: £90

Discount Price: £72

Order online at www.hartpublishing.co.uk  – use the code GLR BD8 to get 20% off!

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