Diplomatic Interventions argues that war is a social construction. In so doing, it unsettles the definition of intervention, as a coercive interference by one state in the affairs of another, to examine the range of communicative or 'diplomatic' practices which through their presence modify the experience of war. The tension between claims that war is pervasive and that war is a social construc…
Individual sections discuss the relationship between international law and other law, methods and principles for creating international law, the subjects of international law, and concepts such as sovereign immunity and nonintervention. Other sections examine the concepts of boundaries and spatial sovereignty, the meanings of personal and material jurisdiction, the law relating to aliens, inter…
This book contains documents of agreements and official agreements between the Indonesian government and other countries and Indonesia's participation with other countries and Indonesia's participation as a party to various international conventions.
The term "rogue nation," formerly reserved for outlaw countries, is increasingly applied to the United States-not only by enemies but by people and nations who have been steadfast friends. The litany is familiar to anyone who has ever read an op-ed page. In the six months before 9/11, the United States walked away from a treaty to control the world traffic in small arms, the Kyoto accord, a tre…