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…
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the competition regimes of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Chinese developments are placed in the context of the adoption of competition regimes by developing and transitional states worldwide and also in relation to the influence of trans-national organisations on transitional states to adopt market-based economic strategies. The book adopts an inter-di…
Whether you are a tourist, a business traveler or an expatriate, this book is an essential companion. The Arab World Handbook collects everything into one essential volume. Covering all the countries of the Arabian peninsula - Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Yemen - it contains advice on planning a visit and making a home in the Arab world. The book covers everythi…
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…
Perjanjian bilateral yang di harapkan dapat menjadi model untuk perjanjian -perjanjian dengan negara-negara ASEAN lainnya, ternyata telah di dasarkan atas dua konvensi Hukum Perdata Internasional Den Haag yang belum lama berserang telah dirumuskan teksnya oleh para sarjana HPI ternama di dunia yang secara berkala Konvensi-konvensi HPI ini telah mendapat julukan sebagai "A Mecca For Private Inte…
In this immensely important book, journalist Robert Lacey draws on years of access to every circle of Saudi society giving readers the fullest portrait yet of a land straddling the worlds of medievalism and modernity. Part 1 : Kingdom of good Part 2 : Kingdom at war Part 3 : Al-Qaeda comes home
In this succinct, modest, and refreshingly forthright book--now revised and updated for the new century--Starr introduces to the uninitiated reader the background, basic data, and issues at stake in China's crisis-ridden present and future. After ten years, John Bryan Starr has thoroughly revised and updated his classic introduction to the background of, the data about, and the issues at sta…
Contents: 1. The economy and factors influencing foreign aid regime 2. The study and its scope 3. Review of development priorities 4. Critical appraisal of foreign aid operation etc.
The Contents of this book Part One: Post-War: 1945-1953 Part Two: Prosperity and Its Discontents: 1953-1971 Part Three: Recessional: 1971-1989 Part Four: After the Fall: 1989-2005
This new edition of the preeminent history of Latin America has been brought up to date in all areas, examining the implications of the end of the Cold War on U.S.-Latin America realtions, such recent developments as international drug trafficking, and the ongoing trend away from authoritarian regimes toward civilian leaders and elected goverments.