n the final analysis, the category “third world” reflects a level of unity imagined and constituted in ways which would enable resistance to a range of practices which systematically disadvantage and subordinate an otherwise diverse group of people.
On the other hand, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) is a critical school of international legal scholarship and an intellectual and political movement. It is a “broad dialectic opposition to international law”, which perceives international law as facilitating the already in motion process of exploitation of the Third World by the West via the method of subordination.