This comprehensive history, published jointly by the IMF and Oxford University Press, was written to mark the fiftieth anniversary of international monetary cooperation. From the establishment of the postwar international monetary system in 1944 to how the framework functions in a vastly expanded world economy, historian Harol James describes the tensions, negotiations, challenges, and progress…
Presents a rigorous and balanced presentation of international financial markets and international corporate finance. Takes a unified approach based on arbitrage-fee pricing. Includes an in-depth discussion of the economic role of the forward rate and the value of the forward contract, a comprehensive discussion of when and why the firm can increase its value by hedging foreign exchange risk, a…
The International trade and Business Law Annual is the official publication of the Australian institute of Foreign and Comparative Law. The Annual includes leading articles, case notes, and comments, as well as book reviews dealing with international trade and business law issues.
International migration has reached the top of the global political agenda. In addition to nations and regional groups, the larger international community is struggling with the question of how best to manage international migration, especially with regard to development and human rights. There is little agreement on what should be done or, indeed, whether this is even an appropriate topic for …
This book contains: A. United nations convention on the use of electronic communications in international contracts 1. Sphere of application 2. General provisions 3. Use of electronic communications in international contracts 4. Final provisions B. Explanatory note by the UNCITRAL secretariat on the United Nations convention on the use of electronic communications in international con…
This book introduces the reader to all major aspects of contemporary international law. It applies a policy-oriented perspective, a highly acclaimed approach developed by a group known as the New Haven School that views international law not as a fixed set of rules but as an ongoing process of decision making through which the members of the world community identify, clarify, and secure their c…
A concise account of international law by an experienced practitioner, this book explains how states and international organisations, especially the United Nations, make and use international law. The nature of international law and its fundamental concepts and principles are descibed. The difference and relationship between various areas of international law which are often misunderstood (such…
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…
The first section of this 2005 book presents a rudimentary and intuitive introduction to the economics of preferential trade agreements. The following chapters present the author's theoretical and empirical research on a number of questions surrounding the issue of preferential trade agreements including the design of necessarily welfare-improving trade blocs, the quantitative (econometric) eva…