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Armed Non-State Actors in International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law
Foundation and Framework of Obligations, and Rules on Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The accountability of armed non-state actors is a neglected field of international law, overtaken by the regimes of state responsibility and individual criminal accountability as well as fears of legitimacy. Yet armed non-state actors are important players in the international arena and their activities...
Religion, Politics and International Relations
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
A leading authority in the discipline, Jeffrey Haynes has contributed to many of the most significant debates in the fields of religion & politics and religion & international relations in the last twenty years. This book brings together many of his most influential essays, offering a comprehensive...
Kosovo between War and Peace
Nationalism, Peacebuilding and International Trusteeship
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2006
A major contribution to the debate about the reconstruction of Kosovo, and to the general discussion surrounding the revived 'trusteeship institution' model in the context of the UN internationalism of the 1990s and the War on Terror following 9/11.
Bringing together leading international scholars,...
The Sierra Leone Special Court and its Legacy
The Impact for Africa and International Criminal Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) is the third modern international criminal tribunal supported by the United Nations and the first to be situated where the crimes were committed. This timely, important and comprehensive book is the first to critically assess the impact and legacy of the SCSL...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law is the world's only annual publication devoted to the study of the laws governing armed conflict. It provides a truly international forum for high-quality, peer-reviewed academic articles focusing on this crucial branch of international law. Distinguished...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This volume commemorates the centenary of the First World War (1914-2014) and aims to capture 100 years of warfare evolution. Among the main issues addressed are the changing nature of means and methods of warfare, the law of weaponry, and challenges to humanitarian assistance and protection of the...
Judges, Law and War
The Judicial Development of International Humanitarian Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
International courts and judicial bodies play a formative role in the development of international humanitarian law. Judges, Law and War examines how judicial bodies have influenced the substantive rules and principles of the law of armed conflict, and studies the creation, application and enforcement...
American Power and Liberal Order
A Conservative Internationalist Grand Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan convinced many policymakers and scholars that the United States should pull back in international affairs and that restraint should guide grand strategy. Paul D. Miller offers a tough-minded critique of this trending body of thought, arguing that US security in fact depends...
by Peter Clegg (Editor), Emilio Pantojas-García (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This edited volume brings together the perspectives of scholars and officials from Europe and the Caribbean to provide a much-needed international, comparative and interdisciplinary perspective on the status and performance of the non-independent territories in the Caribbean. The status of the non-independent...
by Richard Ashby Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Why do international criminal tribunals write histories of the origins and causes of armed conflicts? Richard Ashby Wilson conducted research with judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys and expert witnesses in three international criminal tribunals to understand how law and history are combined in...
by Laura Carballo Piñeiro
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
This book focuses on maritime employment from a private international law perspective. The first chapter analyzes the background against which international jurisdiction and conflict of laws rules are drawn up and examines uniform law in this context, in particular the 2006 Maritime Labour Convention...
by Timo Knaebe
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2006
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2006 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: B+, University of Dar es Salaam (Faculty of Law), course: Law of the Sea, 66 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Hailed as a milestone in the...
Leadership and Policy Innovation - From Clinton to Bush
Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Throughout the Cold War there were longstanding efforts to control the spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) through extensive arms control, deterrence, and defense programs. Since then counterproliferation efforts by the U.S. and international community have accelerated. Given the attention...
The Trouble with the Congo
Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops a case study of the international intervention during the Democratic Republic of the Congo's unsuccessful...