This article uses Samuel Kwadwo Boaten Asante’s career at the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC) as a prism for examining the place of Third World Approaches to International Law within mainstream international organizations (IO) law. By focusing on his role as chief legal adviser, director and highest-ranking legal civil servant at the UNCTC during the heydays of the New International Economic Order (NIEO), it uncovers a less-examined international institution and the dilemmas faced by the Third World international legal civil servant. By examining Asante’s intellectual history and publications during the operational years of the UNCTC, it identifies three main under-explored typologies of Third World approaches to IO law. It argues that the low visibility of Third World approaches within mainstream IO law is closely linked to the failures of the NIEO movement, the abolition of the UNCTC, which symbolized the non-realization of aspirations to codify the principles of the NIEO through IOs, and minimal engagement by IO law scholars with Third World problems. This article argues that, even though the UNCTC ceased to exist in 1992, it created a lasting legacy through its advisory services, which forms part of IO law history.

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Samuel Kwadwo Boaten Asante 和联合国跨国公司中心 (1975–1992)

本文以塞缪尔·夸德沃·博阿滕·阿桑特 (Samuel Kwadwo Boaten Asante) 在联合国跨国公司中心 (UNCTC) 的职业生涯为视角，考察第三世界国际法在主流国际组织 (IO) 法中的地位。通过关注他在新国际经济秩序 (NIEO) 鼎盛时期担任联合国反恐委员会首席法律顾问、主任和最高级别法律公务员的角色，揭示了一个较少受到审查的国际机构和第三世界面临的困境国际法律公务员。通过研究 Asante 在 UNCTC 运作期间的思想历史和出版物，它确定了第三世界对 IO 法方法的三种主要探索不足的类型。它认为，第三世界方法在主流 IO 法中的低知名度与 NIEO 运动的失败、UNCTC 的废除密切相关，这象征着通过 IOs 编纂 NIEO 原则的愿望没有实现，以及IO 法律学者对第三世界问题的参与最少。本文认为，尽管 UNCTC 于 1992 年不复存在，但它通过其咨询服务创造了持久的遗产，这构成了 IO 法律历史的一部分。