Free Flow of Information

Dr. Wanshu Cong is lecturer the Australian National University Law School. She is a generalist public international law scholar whose work draws heavily from Marxist legal theory, critical media studies, and heterodox political economy. Her work has been published in leading international law journals and was awarded Asian Society of International Law Young Scholar Prize (third prize) in 2023.

• Introduction; 1. 'Free flow of information' in the postwar world order: an early intimation of the dual-sided framework; 2. Contesting 'free flow of information' in the cold war era: the third world discontent and inter-capitalist struggle; 3. Information flow on the cusp of the neoliberal globalization: the liberalization of telecommunications; 4. Human rights and the 'free flow of information' in the internet age; 5. 'Free flow' in the digital age: data governance and the maturation of the dual-sided framework; 6. The liberal world order and the end of 'free flow'?; Bibliography; Index.

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