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by Emilian Kavalski
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book offers a relational theory of International Relations (IR). To show the ways in which the relationality is foreshadowed in IR conversations it makes the following three points:
it recovers a mode of IR theorizing as itinerant translation;
it deploys the concept and practices...
Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2011
Agora: The Case of Iraq: International Law and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
The Netherlands Yearbook of International Law was first published in 1970. It has two main aims. It offers a forum for the publication of scholarly articles of a more general nature in the area of public international law including the law of the European Union. In addition, it aims to respond to...
by Jan Klabbers
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The Advanced Introduction to the Law of International Organizations gives a nuanced overview of the legal mechanisms behind the operation of international organizations such as the UN, the EU and the World Bank. It offers perceptive insights by placing the law of international organizations in a political...
International Law and Religion
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
This books maps out the territory of international law and religion challenging received traditions in fundamental aspects. On the one hand, the connection of international law and religion has been little explored. On the other, most of current research on international legal thought presents international...
by Hiromi Sato
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
The legal consequence of the superior orders defense has long been debated as one of the major problems in international criminal law. Several controversial issues such as the immunity of the state, the absolute character of military discipline, and immunity on the grounds of mistake of law and/or...
Advance Directives under Germany's Civil Code in a Comparative Context
Private Law in the Service of Human Rights in Shifting Legal Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Scientific Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Law - Comparative Legal Systems, Comparative Law, , language: English, abstract: Aging societies and advances in medicine make it likely that biomedical issues will pose legal challenges. While biolaw can provide some regulation, important life and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The European Union undoubtedly plays an important role in the formation of international law. This takes place through a number of avenues ranging from the simple existence of this supranational legal order within the sphere of international law to the actual influencing of international legal order....
The face of corruption in Kenya and the possible power of international civil society interference
Corruption in colonial and postcolonial Kenay as well as the possible influence of international civil society
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Scientific Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, , language: English, abstract: The structure of Kenyan society is analyzed according to how it favours corruption and how this might be broken up by the intervention of the powers of the international...
by Christopher Lamont
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
This book guides you through the entirety of the research process in International Relations, from selecting a research question and reviewing the literature to field research and writing up. Covering both qualitative and quantitative methods in IR, it offers a balanced assessment of the key methodological...
Brussels Ibis Regulation
Changes and Challenges of the Renewed Procedural Scheme
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This book focuses on major amendments introduced in the Brussels I regulatory framework. The contributions scrutenise the changes introduced in the Brussels Ibis Regulation, a legal instrument that presents a core of the unification of private international law rules on the European Union level. It...
The Idea of International Society
Erasmus, Vitoria, Gentili and Grotius
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book offers the first comprehensive account and re-appraisal of the formative phase of what is often termed the 'Grotian tradition' in international relations theory: the view that sovereign states are not free to act at will, but are akin to members of a society, bound by its norms. It examines...
The Reception of Asylum Seekers under International Law
Between Sovereignty and Equality
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Increasingly, European states are using policy on the reception of asylum seekers as an instrument of immigration control, eg by deterring the lodging of asylum applications, preventing integration into their societies and exercising a large degree of control over asylum seekers in order to facilitate...
International Conflict
Logic and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
International Conflict**: Logic and Evidence** is based on the premise that proper understanding of international conflict – a necessary prerequisite for achieving peace – can come only from logic and evidence, not from opinion and anecdote. This groundbreaking book introduces students to international...
by Badredine Arfi
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
International Relations (IR) theorists have ceaselessly sought to understand, explain, and transform the experienced reality of international politics. Running through all these attempts is a persistent, yet unquestioned, quest by theorists to develop strategies to eliminate or reduce the antinomies,...