International category: 36838 books
International Criminal Law
Using or Abusing Legality?
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book analyses the relationship between law and violence, the utility of law over violence and whether legality as an approach has an inherent disability in addressing mass violence as a crime. The study is located within international law and assesses whether prosecuting political violence would...
by Yuval Shany
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This examination of the jurisdiction of international courts and the admissibility of cases before them analyses jurisdictional and admissibility rules in light of the roles assumed by international courts in international life and in light of the roles that jurisdictional and admissibility rules...
Self-Defence in International and Criminal Law
The Doctrine of Imminence
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Drawing from scholarship across law, history, politics and philosophy, Self-Defence in International and Criminal Law provides a broad and interdisciplinary approach to the doctrine of self-defence in both domestic criminal and international law. It focuses on the requirement of imminence, which deals...
The Liability Law in International Air Transport
Achievements and Deficiencies
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Law - Comparative Legal Systems, Comparative Law, grade: 1,3, University of Applied Sciences Wildau (Wildau Institute of Technology (WIT)), course: Aviation Management, language: English, abstract: Law in general is subdivided in two parts: in public law...
Iran's Nuclear Program and International Law
From Confrontation to Accord
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book provides an international legal analysis of the most important questions regarding Iran's nuclear program since 2002. Setting these legal questions in their historical and diplomatic context, this book aims to clarify how the relevant sources of international law - including primarily the...
by Nassef M. Adiong
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A+, Technological University of the Philippines (International Studies), course: for college papers, 21 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract:...
Creating International Studies
Angell, Mitrany and the Liberal Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Through a critical evaluation of the works of Norman Angell and David Mitrany, this book explores the liberal roots of the academic discipline of International Relations (IR). Ashworth argues that, far from being the product of timeless realist truths, IR’s origins are rooted in liberal attempts...
Cultural Diversity in International Law
The Effectiveness of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (CDCE) was adopted in 2005 and designed to allow States to protect and promote cultural policies. This book examines the effectiveness of the CDCE and offers ways by which its implementation may be improved...
The Logic of Conformity
Japan's Entry into International Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
In The Logic of Conformity, Tomoko T. Okagaki examines Japan’s entry into the European state system in the late nineteenth century. Okagaki focuses on the extraordinary degree of conformity that Japan demonstrated in accommodating itself to Western norms of international relations within a very...
Cybercrime, Organized Crime, and Societal Responses
International Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
This timely book provides contributions on international, comparative crime phenomena: gangs, trafficking, fear of crime, and crime prevention. It highlights contributions originally prepared for the XVII World Congress of Criminology and for the 2015 Cybercrime Conference in Oñati, Spain which have...
Judging the State in International Trade and Investment Law
Sovereignty Modern, the Law and the Economics
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
This book addresses concerns with the international trade and investment dispute settlement systems from a statist perspective, at a time when multilateralism is deeply questioned by the forces of mega-regionalism and political and economic contestation. In covering recent case law and theoretical...
International Order in Diversity
War, Trade and Rule in the Indian Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
International relations scholars typically expect political communities to resemble one another the more they are exposed to pressures of war, economic competition and the spread of hegemonic legitimacy standards. However, historically it is heterogeneity, not homogeneity, that has most often defined...
by Kip Becker, Hamed El-Said
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Understand the economic, cultural, and enterprise issues facing the Arab countries of the Middle East!
Jordan is playing a vital role in the economic and political transformation of the Middle East, but little research has been done on its business climate. Management and International Business...
International Investment Law and Arbitration
Commentary, Awards and other Materials
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
What was once a contested body of principles applied peripherally to the international settlement of expropriation disputes has been transformed and in its place now stands an important area of international disputes practice. International Investment Law and Arbitration offers a comprehensive introduction...