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Neg­ar Man­souri

Postdoc

Emner
International ret Handel FN Internationale relationer Globalisering

Primary research areas

Law and Polit­ic­al Eco­nomy
Draw­ing from Marx­ist so­cial and leg­al the­ory, polit­ic­al eco­nomy, and his­tor­ic­al so­ci­ology, this pa­per ex­am­ines the in­ter­play between state/in­ter­na­tion­al law and the mar­ket's laws of mo­tion.
His­tory and The­ory of In­ter­na­tion­al Law
Un­der­stand­ing so­cio-polit­ic­al form­a­tions around cap­it­al­ist so­cial re­la­tions on a plan­et­ary scale in the 19th and 20th cen­tur­ies.
In­ter­na­tion­al Or­gan­isa­tions
Ex­plor­ing the ori­gin and op­er­a­tion of tech­nic­al in­ter­gov­ern­ment­al or­gan­isa­tions and their law­mak­ing and stand­ard-set­ting activ­it­ies.

His­tor­iciz­ing today’s so­cio-polit­ic­al struc­tures through the lens of 'in­ter­na­tion­al law'

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in historical sociology and economic law within the European Research Council advanced grant ‘Global Value Chains: Constituting  Connectivity, Corporations and Corporations (GLOBALVALUE)' led by Professor Poul Fritz Kjaer, at Copenhagen Business School. Prior to joining the CBS, I defended my thesis in international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

Within the GLOBALVALUE project, I have written on value chains of European wine and tropical timber in a historical perspective, as well as neoliberalism and crisis of the international order. More broadly, my research investigates legal and political formations around capitalist social relations, focusing particularly on the interplay between liberal/competitive capitalism and state capitalism in the international economic order in the 19th and 20th centuries. My selected publications are: 

The Colonial Aftertaste: Algerian Wine, the French Appellation of Origin, and the European Sovereignty-Property Complex in International Law, April 2026, In: European Journal of International Law, 34p, https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chag007

Research output: Contribution to journal, peer review 

Laissez-Faire, State Capitalism, and the Making of International Organizations. In N. Mansouri & D. R. Quiroga-Villamarín (Eds.), Ways of Seeing International Organizations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law (pp. 248–270). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009552646 

Research output: Chapter, peer review 

Capitalist State, State Capitalism and the Current Conjuncture of International Law. In: Journal of Law and Political Economy. Forthcoming 2026 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5513680

Research output: Contribution to journal, peer review 

Money, magic, and machines: International Telecommunication Union and liberalisation of telecommunications networks and services (1970s–1990s). In: London Review of International Law, 11(2), 231–272. https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrad011

Research output: Contribution to journal, peer review 

For other publications, see https://research.cbs.dk/da/persons/negar-mansouri/