This book explores the contribution that international law may make to the resolution of culture conflicts--political disputes between the members of different ethno-cultural groups--in democratic States. International law recognizes that persons belonging to minorities have the right to enjoy their own culture and peoples have the right to self-determination without detailing how these princip…
There has been considerable debate in the international community as to the legality of the forceful actions in Kosovo in 1999, Afghanistan in 2002 and Iraq in 2003 under the United Nations Charter. There has been consensus, however, that the use of force in all these situations had to be both proportional and necessary. Against the background of these recent armed conflicts, this book offers t…
This book argues that the colonial confrontation was central to the formation of international law and, in particular, its founding concept, sovereignty. Traditional histories of the discipline present colonialism and non-European peoples as peripheral concerns. By contrast, Anghie argues that international law has always been animated by the 'civilizing mission' - the project of governing non-…
The first volume of the International Environmental Law Reports focuses on early decisions. It includes all the well known, and some lesser known, international decisions relevant to international environmental law prior to the 1970s, with a summary of each decision. Volume 1 also includes a number of very early national decisions considered important in the development of international environ…
Contents: 1. Convention on offences and certain other acts committed on board aircraft, 1963. 2. Convention for the suppression of unlawful seizure of aircraft, 1970. 3. Convention for the suppression of unlawful acts against the safety of civil aviation, 1971. etc.
Contents: 1. The application and relevance of international law 2. The sources of international law 3. International organizations 4. International dispute settlement 5. The international law of treaties etc.
The content of this book: - Explores four areas: contemporary uncertainties; personality in international law; the existence of states and the use of force; and international economic/financial law - The historical introduction gives you an overview of the development of the philosophy of international law, from late-scholastic natural law to the gradual dominance of legal positivism, and to …
This book contents: 1. Is there an Enduring Logic of Conflict in World Politics? 2. Origins of the Great Twentieth-Century Conflicts. 3. Balance of Power and World War I. 4. The Failure of Collective Security and World War II. 5. The Cold War. 6. Intervention, Institutions, and Regional Conflicts. 7. Interdependence and Globalization. 8. The Information Age. 9. A New World Order?
This manual is the third in a series devoted to the terminology of the social sciences and based on a revolutionary principle. Multilingual terminology is no longer treated as a science devoted to the explanation of the meaning of terms in different languages, but as one built on the elucidation of the equivalence in the multilingual plane of identical concepts. The latter are the starting poin…
*Fyi: The title of this book is beside The publication of these volumes is especially timely, in view of the pervasive and deepening concern aroused by military excesses and atrocities in recent years. In the United States, attention has naturally been concentrated on the fighting in Indochina. But the mere mention of Indonesia, Biafra, and East Pakistan is enough of a reminder that war crim…