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by Lutz Lindenau
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 7,5 from max 10, University of Amsterdam (FMG), course: United Nations International Students Conference in Amsterdam 2001, 10 entries in the bibliography, language:...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This Commentary provides the first comprehensive legal article-by-article analysis of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The Convention is the key international human rights instrument exclusively devoted to persons with disabilities and the centerpiece...
by Stefan Kirchner
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Scientific Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, , language: English, abstract: How does general international human rights law protect indigenous peoples? After all, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) remains silent on...
Religion in International Relations Theory
Interactions and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
There is a growing realization among international relations scholars and practitioners that religion is a critical factor in global politics. The Iranian Revolution, the September 11 attacks, the ethno-religious conflicts such as the ones in the former Yugoslavia and Sri Lanka are among the many...
Humanizing the Laws of War
The Red Cross and the Development of International Humanitarian Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Over the past 150 years, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been one of the main drivers of progressive development in international humanitarian law, whilst assuming various roles in the humanization of the laws of war. With select contributions from international experts, this...
by Patrick Capps
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
International lawyers have often been interested in the link between their discipline and the foundational issues of jurisprudential method, but little that is systematic has been written on this subject. In this book, an attempt is made to fill this gap by focusing on issues of concept-formation...
How Interpretation Makes International Law
On Semantic Change and Normative Twists
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Challenging the classic narrative that sovereign states make the law that constrains them, this book argues that treaties and other sources of international law form only the starting point of legal authority. Interpretation can shift the meaning of texts and, in its own way, make law. In the practice...
Thomas Hobbes's Conception of Peace
Civil Society and International Order
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This book explores Hobbes’s ideas about the internal pacification of states, the prospect of a peaceful international order, and the connections between civil and international peace. It questions the notion of a negative Hobbesian peace, which is based on the mere suppression of violence, and emphasises...
Transitional Justice, Peace and Accountability
Outreach and the Role of International Courts after Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
The book looks at the outreach and communication strategies employed by internationalised courts to try to understand the wider impact of international justice.
This book critically examines the role of outreach within international justice focusing specifically on the role of outreach at the...
by Fiona Robertson-Snape, Peter Lamb, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The Historical Dictionary of International Relations is a general guide to the theory and practice of the relations between states, and between states and other actors on the world stage. It introduces readers to the real world operations of international relations, and is thus concerned with the...
by Robert Cryer, Hakan Friman, Darryl Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
This market-leading textbook gives an authoritative account of international criminal law, and focuses on what the student needs to know - the crimes that are dealt with by international courts and tribunals as well as the procedures that police the investigation and prosecution of those crimes. The...
International Relations since 1945
East, West, North, South
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Introducing the key events and developments in international relations, this authoritative and engaging book provides students with a clear understanding of the contemporary issues in international politics. Putting the foundations and contexts of International Relations at your fingertips, this Eighth...
by A. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
For far too long the discipline of International Relations has failed to engage with the study of genocide. This is despite the fact that genocide holds a direct relationship with the central concepts of international relations: the state, war, power, and security. This bold, innovative and unique...
Defending Democratic Norms
International Actors and the Politics of Electoral Misconduct
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Although nearly every country in the world today holds multiparty elections, these contests are often blatantly unfair. For governments, electoral misconduct is a tempting but also a risky practice, because it represents a violation of Although nearly every country in the world today holds multiparty...