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Negotiating sovereignty and human rights
International society and the International Criminal Court
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society. The author shows how the way in which actors refer to core norms of the international society such as sovereignty...
Deference in International Courts and Tribunals
Standard of Review and Margin of Appreciation
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
International courts and tribunals are often asked to review decisions originally made by domestic decision-makers. This can often be a source of tension, as the international courts and tribunals need to judge how far to defer to the original decisions of the national bodies. As international courts...
Hybrid and Internationalised Criminal Tribunals
Selected Jurisdictional Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
In recent years a number of criminal tribunals have been established to investigate, prosecute and try individuals accused of serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law. These tribunals have been described as 'hybrid' or 'internationalised' tribunals as...
by Nicholas Sunday
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2012 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: A, , course: LAW, language: English, abstract: We must spare no effort to free all of humanity, and above all our children and grandchildren, from the threat of living...
Quasi-state Entities and International Criminal Justice
Legitimising Narratives and Counter-Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book explores the intended and unintended impact of international criminal justice on the legitimacy of quasi-state entities (QSEs).
In order to do so, the concept of ‘quasi-state entity’ is introduced to distinguish actors in statehood conflicts that aspire to statehood, and fulfil...
Beyond Human Rights
The Legal Status of the Individual in International Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
A paradigm change is occurring, in the course of which human beings are becoming the primary international legal persons. In numerous areas of public international law, substantive rights and obligations of individuals arguably flow directly from international law. The novel legal status of humans...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
International Legal Positivism in a Post-Modern World provides fresh perspectives on one of the most important and most controversial families of theoretical approaches to the study and practice of international law. The contributors include leading experts on international legal theory who analyse...
Non-State Actor Dynamics in International Law
From Law-Takers to Law-Makers
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Non-state actors have always been treated with ambivalence in the works of international law. While their empirical existence is widely acknowledged and their impact and influence uncontested, non-state actors are still not in the centre of international legal research. The idea that non-state actors...
by Shahar Hameiri, Caroline Hughes, Fabio Scarpello
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
International peace- and state-building interventions have become ubiquitous in international politics since the 1990s, aiming to tackle the security problems stemming from the instability afflicting many developing states. Their frequent failures have prompted a shift towards analysing how the interaction...
by Kendall Stiles
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Do countries keep their promises to the international community? When they sign treaties or learn about new expectations, do they take them seriously and implement them? Since we already know intuitively that not all countries do, the next question – and the topic of this book – is: who complies?...
UNHCR and International Refugee Law
From Treaties to Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This book considers the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ contribution to international refugee law since the establishment of UNHCR by the United Nations General Assembly in 1951. The book explores the historical and statutory foundations that create an indelible link between UNHCR...
by Clive Archer
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
What is the role of international organizations in the international political system?
The fourth edition of Clive Archer’s widely used textbook continues to provide students with an introduction to international organizations, exploring their rise and development, and accounts for their...
The Global Transformation
History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
The 'long nineteenth century' (1776–1914) was a period of political, economic, military and cultural revolutions that re-forged both domestic and international societies. Neither existing international histories nor international relations texts sufficiently register the scale and impact of this...
by Andreas Keller
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: International Organisations, grade: 1,0, LMU Munich (Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für politische Wissenschaften), language: English, abstract: Regularly, the International Finance Institutions (the World Bank...