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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Written by an international team of experts from the US, UK, Hong Kong, China, Korea and Canada, this important and interesting book examines and explores the relationship between the international political and economic system, and China’s economic and political transition.
Exploring international...
Prosecuting War Crimes
Lessons and legacies of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
This volume examines the legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was created under Chapter VII of the UN Charter as a mechanism explicitly aimed at the restoration and maintenance of international peace and security.
As the ICTY has now entered...
Redefining Regional Power in International Relations
Indian and South African perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book examines the concept of regional power in international relations. Using the emerging powers of India and South Africa as the case studies, it explores how regional powers simultaneously differ and share common features.
The book develops a method to classify and evaluate different...
by Ruti Teitel
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
In Humanity's Law, renowned legal scholar Ruti Teitel offers a powerful account of one of the central transformations of the post-Cold War era: the profound normative shift in the international legal order from prioritizing state security to protecting human security. As she demonstrates, courts,...
Sexualised Crimes, Armed Conflict and the Law
The International Criminal Court and the Definitions of Rape and Forced Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
From ancient to modern times, sexualised war violence against women was tolerated if not encouraged as a means of reward, propaganda, humiliation, and terror. This was and is in defiance of international laws that have criminalised acts of sexualised war violence since the 18th century. Ad hoc international...
At the Origins of Modernity
Francisco de Vitoria and the Discovery of International Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This book is based on an international project conducted by the Institute for European Studies of the University CEU San Pablo in Madrid and a seminar on Vitoria and International Law which took place on July 2nd 2015 in the convent of San Esteban, the place where Vitoria spent his most productive...
by Michael P. Marks
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
This book presents an analysis of how metaphors are essential elements in the study of international relations. It acknowledges the fact that theory and practice in international relations often rest on common metaphorical concepts which have implications for the ways people around the world pursue...
International Organizations and the Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect
The Humanitarian Crisis in Syria
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
This book seeks to understand the obligation of the international community to implement the principles of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).
With a focus on the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the volume examines what formal responsibility and actual capability international institutions have...
Cases of Conflict
Transboundary Disputes and the Development of International Environmental Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Cases of Conflict focuses on times of dispute as important moments in the development of international environmental law. Conflict tests international law—both its content and its relevance become clearer in times of controversy—but conflict can also help shape the law.
Drawing from a growing...
When Norms Collide
Local Responses to Activism against Female Genital Mutilation and Early Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Many transnational campaigns, and particularly the transnational campaign on violence against women, promote international norms that target the behavior of local nonstate actors. But these international norms are often at odds with local practices. What happens when the international and local norms...
The Judicialization of International Law
A Mixed Blessing?
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The influence of international courts is ubiquitous, covering areas from the law of the sea to international criminal law. This judicialization of international law is often lauded for bringing effective global governance, upholding the rule of law, and protecting the right of individuals. Yet at...
The Power of International Theory
Reforging the Link to Foreign Policy-Making through Scientific Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This new study challenges how we think about international relations, presenting an analysis of current trends and insights into new directions.
It shows how the discipline of international relations was created with a purpose of helping policy-makers to build a more peaceful and just world....
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
This book examines the role played by domestic and international judges in the “flexibilization” of legal systems through general principles. It features revised papers that were presented at the Annual Conference of the European-American Consortium for Legal Education, held at the University...
by Anne T. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Although human trafficking has a long and ignoble history, it is only recently that trafficking has become a major political issue for states and the international community and the subject of detailed international rules. Anne T. Gallagher calls on her direct experience working within the United...