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by Jan Klabbers
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Written by one of the world's leading international lawyers, this is a landmark publication in the teaching of international law. International law can be defined as 'the rules governing the legal relationship between nations and states', but in reality it is much more complex, with political, diplomatic...
by Paul Sharp
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Diplomacy does not take place simply between states but wherever people live in different groups. Paul Sharp argues that the demand for diplomacy, and the need for the insights of diplomatic theory, are on the rise. In contrast to conventional texts which use international relations theories to make...
International Environmental Agreements
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
International environmental agreements provide a practical basis for countries to address environmental issues on a global scale. This book explores the workings and outcomes of these agreements, and analyses key questions of why some problems are dealt with successfully and others ignored.
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The Degradation of the International Legal Order?
The Rehabilitation of Law and the Possibility of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Providing the basis for critical engagement with the pessimism of the contemporary age, The Degradation of the International Legal Order? argues passionately for a rehabilitation of the honour of historic events and processes, and of their role in generating legal concepts. Drawing primarily from...
by Dr Mario Prost
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
'Fragmentation' has become a defining, albeit controversial, metaphor of international law scholarship in the era of globalisation. Some scholars see it as a new development, others as history repeating itself; some approach it as a technical issue and some as the reflection of deeper political struggles....
Law at the Vanishing Point
A Philosophical Analysis of International Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Two central questions are at the core of international legal theory: 'What is international law?', and 'Is international law really law?' This volume examines these critical questions and the philosophical foundations of modern international law using the tools of Anglo-American legal theory and western...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Focusing empirically on how political and economic forces are always mediated and interpreted by agents, both in individual countries and in the international sphere, Constructing the International Economy sets out what such constructions and what various forms of constructivism mean, both as ways...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Cities have become increasingly important to global politics, but have largely occupied a peripheral place in the academic study of International Relations (IR). This is a notable oversight for the discipline, although one which may be explained by IR’s traditional state centrism, the subjugation...
Customary International Law
A New Theory with Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010
Customary international law, although long recognized as a primary source of international law, remains replete with enigmas, both conceptual and practical. These include how to determine the existence of opinio juris, the function of the state practice requirement, the definition of jus cogens customary...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Religious concerns stand at the center of international politics, yet key paradigms in international relations, namely realism, liberalism, and constructivism, barely consider religion in their analysis of political subjects. The essays in this collection rectify this. Authored by leading scholars,...
Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror
Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Foundations of International Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
'For those of us who have to live with terrorism, when we leave home in the morning there is no guarantee that we will come back.' Thus Lakshman Kadirgamar, Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, foreshadowed his own assassination at his home in Colombo in August 2005. Kadirgamar had a clear and prophetic...
The Global Covenant
Human Conduct in a World of States
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
The Global Covernant is a ground-breaking work by one of the leading scholars in international relations that rejuvenates the classical international society approach, and brings it into contact with the new era of world politics. It investigates the most important international issues of our time,...
The Present State of International Law and Other Essays
written in honour of the Centenary Celebration of the International Law Association 1873–1973
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
In October I873, as every Conference Report recalls, the Associ ation for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations was founded in Brussels (Belgium). At the Brussels Conference of I895 the Association's name was changed and ever since it has been "The International Law Association"....
by Matthias Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2008
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, grade: 1,3, University of Hull (Business School), course: International Economics, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Does international trade generate benefits for a country? This question...