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Pre-emptive Self-Defence: 'In an age of international terrorism, the law on self-defence needs to be expanded to include the right to pre-emptive self-defence.'
An evaluation of arguments both for and against this proposition
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: Distinction, Macquarie University, course: IRPG 842 Politics of International Law, language: English, abstract: This paper will argue against an expansion of international...
Regional Maintenance of Peace and Security under International Law
The Distorted Mirrors
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This book explores the scope and limits of what is appropriate for regional action in the maintenance of peace and security. It offers a comparative study of legal regulation of the use of force in the maintenance of peace and security of different security regions in the context of the UN system...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Peoples' Tribunals and International Law is the first book to analyse how civil society tribunals implement and develop international law. With contributions covering tribunals in Europe, Latin America and Asia, this edited collection provides cross-disciplinary academic and activist perspectives...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Traditional understandings of economic development in low- and mid-income countries have largely been influenced by the economic narrative of Western Official Development Assistance (ODA). Within this framework, compliance with macroeconomic orthodoxy and early integration in Global Economic Governance...
Norm Change in International Relations
Linked Ecologies in UN Peacekeeping Operations
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
In recent decades there have been several constructivist scholars who have looked at how norms change in international relations. However few have taken a closer look at the particular strategies that are employed to further change, or looked at the common factors that have been in play in these processes....
Regional Risk and Security in Japan
Whither the everyday
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Japan’s unusual position in the realm of international politics encapsulates a three-fold juxtaposition: both in and out of Asia, both occupied by and a close ally of the United States, and both a key trade partner and a strategic rival of China. Whilst international relations theory offers a number...
Understanding International Diplomacy
Theory, Practice and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of international diplomacy, covering both theory and practice. This second edition has been revised and updated, with new material on such key contemporary issues as Syria, Ukraine, migration and the South China Sea.
The text summarizes...
Geo-economics and Power Politics in the 21st Century
The Revival of Economic Statecraft
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book investigates the new power politics and argues that the changing structural features of the contemporary international system are recasting the strategic imperatives of foreign policy practice.
States increasingly practice power politics...
International Order at Sea
How it is challenged. How it is maintained.
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
This book examines how international order at sea is challenged, changed and maintained. The book surveys challenges to the international order at sea in the Asia-Pacific, the Indian Ocean Region, the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. It explores the interaction between and cooperation among leading,...
The Changing Strategies of International Business
How MNEs Manage in a Changing Commercial and Political Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
The ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS (UK and Ireland Chapter)
Published in association with the UK and Ireland Chapter of the Academy of International Business.
In line with the 45th AIB-UKI conference, this edited collection brings together fresh perspectives on international business strategy,...
by Silke Marie Christiansen
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The book addresses the question of whether the currently available instruments of international environmental and international humanitarian law are applicable to climate conflicts. It clarifies the different pathways leading from climate change to conflict and offers an analysis of international...
International Human Rights Law and Domestic Violence
The Effectiveness of International Human Rights Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
This innovative book examines the effectiveness of international human rights law, through the case study of domestic violence. Domestic violence is an issue that affects vast numbers of women throughout all nations of the world, but as it takes place between private individuals it does not come within...
by Michael Brecher
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
International Political Earthquakes is the masterwork of the preeminent scholar Michael Brecher. Brecher, who came of age before World War II, has witnessed more than seven decades of conflict and has spent his career studying the dynamics of relations among nations throughout the world.
When...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Volume 9 of the EYIEL focusses on natural resources law understood as a special area of international economic law. In light of increasing conflicts over access to and the use of natural resources and of their impact on political, social and environmental aspects, the contributions of this volume...