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by Sarah Tenney, Norman K. Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In its more than 65 years of existence, the International Monetary Fund has evolved from a small, obscure international agency, with new and uncertain responsibilities, into a powerful institution that today has assumed center stage in the international monetary system. It is a remarkable story of...
The Cuban Embargo under International Law
El Bloqueo
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
The United States embargo against Cuba was imposed over fifty years ago initially as a response to the new revolutionary government's seizure of US properties, which was viewed by the US as a violation of international law. However, while sanctions can be legitimate means of enforcing established...
China and the Group 20
The Interplay between a Rising Power and an Emerging Institution
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Since the great financial crisis in 2008, the Group 20 (G20) has played an increasingly important role in global economic governance as an emerging global macroeconomic coordination mechanism. China and the Group 20 provides experts' observations on the development of the G20, G20's influence on global...
by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, who set the standard for the scientific approach to international relations, has returned with a reformulated fifth edition of Principles of International Politics, based on extensive reviewer feedback and newly guided by an emphasis on questions about the causes and consequences...
Aid from International NGOs
Blind Spots on the AID Allocation Map
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
International NGOs are increasingly important players within the new aid architecture but their geographic choices remain uncharted territory. This book focuses on patterns of development assistance, mapping, while analysing and assessing the country choices of the largest international NGOs. Koch's...
Measuring International Authority
A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This is the third of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and below the central state. This book is written for those interested in the character, causes, and consequences of governance within the state. This book sets out a measure of authority for seventy-six international...
Evaluating the Responsibility to Protect
Mass Atrocity Prevention as a Consolidating Norm in International Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This book evaluates the extent to which the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has consolidated as a norm in international society.
A consolidated norm in international society is defined here as a regularised pattern of behaviour that is widely accepted as appropriate within a given social context....
International and European Monetary Law
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This book introduces the fundamental monetary law problems of cross-border economic activity and the solutions thereto in international monetary law, and in EU law. After decades of having been neglected by legal scholars, international and European monetary law has attracted increasing attention...
International Trade
Theory, Evidence and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
International Trade: Theory, Evidence and Policy provides an integrated non-mathematical account of trade theory and policy that can be read straight through. The footnotes provide caveats, extensions and entry points, or further reading.
This book is divided into three parts. The first part...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book provides an excellent overview of the legal issues surrounding climate change mitigation and international trade law. It surveys key observed and potential challenges posed by responses to climate change in terms of international trade law. By examining the controversial issues seen in legal...
International Trade and Labor Markets
Welfare, Inequality and Unemployment
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This volume collects theoretical papers on the labor market effects of international trade that Udo Kreickemeier has published, together with different co-authors, over the past decade. Many contributions contained in this volume feature labor market imperfections that give rise to involuntary unemployment,...
Science and Technology in International Economic Law
Balancing Competing Interests
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Science and technology plays an increasingly important role in the continued development of international economic law. This book brings together well-known and rising scholars to explore the status and interaction of science, technology and international economic law. The book reviews the place of...
International Relations Theory and International Law
A Critical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
International law is playing an increasingly important role in international politics. However, international relations theorists have thus far failed to conceptualise adequately the role that law plays in politics. Instead, IR theorists have tended to operate with a limited conception of law. An...
The principle of universal jurisdiction: A threat to the immunities of senior state officials?
Charges of international crimes before foreign state courts
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: 1,0, University of Bremen (Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft), course: International Public Law, language: English, abstract: Following from the general principle of international law imposing...