International category: 36838 books
Fighting at the Legal Boundaries
Controlling the Use of Force in Contemporary Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The international law governing armed conflict is at a crossroads, as the formal framework of laws designed to control the exercise of self-defense and conduct of inter-state conflict finds itself confronted with violent 21st Century disputes of a very different character. Military practitioners who...
Recognizing States
International Society and the Establishment of New States Since 1776
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This book examines recognition of new states, the practice historically employed to regulate membership in international society. The last twenty years have witnessed new or lingering demands for statehood in different areas of the world. The claims of some, like those of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Eritrea,...
by Conor McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Alongside existing regimes for victim redress at the national and international levels, in the coming years international criminal law and, in particular, the International Criminal Court, will potentially provide a significant legal framework through which the harm caused by egregious conduct can...
by Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
This book contends that the right of access to justice (at national and international levels) constitutes a basic cornerstone of the international protection of human rights, and conforms a true right to the Law. It amounts, lato sensu, to the right to the realization of justice. In such understanding,...
The Environment and International Politics
International Fisheries, Heidegger and Social Method
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
This new study shows how environmental issues represent a deep problem in conceptualising the relationship between human beings and nature.
This key relationship grounds the implicit ethical and political concerns of International Relations and our understandings of environmental politics....
Governing Guns, Preventing Plunder
International Cooperation against Illicit Trade
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
From human trafficking to the smuggling of small arms to the looting of antiquities, illicit trade poses significant threats to international order. So why is it so difficult to establish international cooperation against illicit trade? Governing Guns, Preventing Plunder offers a novel, thought-provoking...
The United Nations, Peace and Security
From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Ending humanitarian atrocities has become as important for the United Nations as preventing interstate war. This book examines the transformation of UN operations, analysing its changing role and structure. Ramesh Thakur asks why, when and how force may be used, and argues that the growing gulf between...
The New Agenda for International Relations
From Polarization to Globalization in World Politics?
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
There have been significant political eras which have shaped not only the structure of world politics but the way in which it has been studied. The geopolitical and ideological contours of the Cold War period, for example, had an impact on almost every aspect of world politics and the study of international...
Five Masters of International Law
Conversations with R-J Dupuy, E Jiménez de Aréchaga, R Jennings, L Henkin and O Schachter
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
This book consists of interviews with five distinguished international lawyers from the UK, USA, Uruguay and France, conducted by the editor, Antonio Cassese, between 1993 and 1995. Each interview is preceded by a brief 'intellectual portrait' of the interviewee. In his general introduction Cassese...
The Exclusions of Civilization
Indigenous Peoples in the Story of International Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This book builds upon an inter-disciplinary body of literature to detail the centrality of European colonialism and imperialism in the constitution of modern international relations. A critical historical analysis that challenges conventional assumptions about the evolution and expansion of international...
by Trevor Buck
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
International Child Law examines and discusses the international legal framework and issues relating to children. Analysing both public and private international legal aspects, this cross-disciplinary text promotes an understanding of the ongoing development of child law, children’s rights and the...
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law
Contemporary Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in the scale and importance of economic, social, and cultural rights (ESC rights), culminating in the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in December 2008. The Protocol gives individuals...
by André Nollkaemper
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
This book explores the way domestic courts contribute to the maintenance of theinternational of law by providing judicial control over the exercises of public powers that may conflict with international law. The main focus of the book will be on judicial control of exercise of public powers by states....
by Christine Evans
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
In this evaluation of the international legal standing of the right to reparation and its practical implementation at the national level, Christine Evans outlines State responsibility and examines the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice, the Articles on State Responsibility of the...