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Geopolitics in Health
Confronting Obesity, AIDS, and Tuberculosis in the Emerging BRICS Economies
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In recent years, political leaders in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, collectively known as the BRICS, have worked to reformulate international discussions and policies on issues ranging from fair and free trade to human rights. When it comes to health epidemics, however, the BRICS...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Offering insights from pioneering new perspectives in addition to well-established traditions of research, this Handbook considers the activities not only of advocacy groups in the environmental, feminist, human rights, humanitarian, and peace sectors, but also the array of religious, professional,...
Transplanting International Courts
The Law and Politics of the Andean Tribunal of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Transplanting International Courts provides a deep, systematic investigation of the most active and successful transplant of the European Court of Justice. The Andean Tribunal is effective by any plausible definition of the term, but only in the domain of intellectual property law. Alter and Helfer...
China's International Relations in the 21st Century
Dynamics of Paradigm Shifts
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2000
Most people believe China's foreign behavior is driven by its growing power status in world politics. Chinese leaders still firmly uphold some traditional values in foreign policy such as sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national unification. However, it is often neglected that China's behavior...
by Barbara von Tigerstrom
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Exploring a selection of current issues in international law as they pertain to South Pacific countries and Antarctica, this volume covers diverse topics including mass refugee flows, transnational crime, international terrorism, freedom of navigation, climate change, international trade agreements...
by Jan Klabbers
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
The third edition of this market-leading textbook (previously called An Introduction to International Institutional Law) is written in a clear, three-part structure. It is centred on the dynamics of the relationships between international organisations and their organs, staff, and the outside world....
Confounding Powers
Anarchy and International Society from the Assassins to Al Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Nearly a decade and a half after 9/11, the study of international politics has yet to address some of the most pressing issues raised by the attacks, most notably the relationships between Al Qaeda's international systemic origins and its international societal effects. This theoretically broad-ranging...
by Petra Viebig
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
This work deals with the exclusion of illicitly obtained evidence at the International Criminal Court. At the level of domestic law, the so-called exclusionary rule has always been a very prominent topic. The reason for this is that the way a court of law deals with tainted evidence pertains to a...
The Defendant in International Criminal Proceedings
Between Law and Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
It is often said that criminal procedure should ensure that the defendant is a subject, not just an object, of proceedings. This book asks to what extent this can be said to be true of international criminal trials.
The first part of the book aims to find out the extent to which defendants before...
African Realism?
International Relations Theory and Africa's Wars in the Postcolonial Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
African Realism explains Africa’s international conflicts of the post-colonial era through international relations theory. It looks at the relationship between Africa’s domestic and international conflicts, as well as the impact of factors such as domestic legitimacy, trade, and regional economic...
Peace, Justice and International Order
Decent Peace in John Rawls' The Law of Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
How can fair cooperation and a stable peace be reached in the international realm? Peace, Justice and International Order discusses this question in the light of John Rawls' The Law of Peoples, offers a new approach to Rawls' international theory and contributes to the discourse on international peace and justice.
by Henning Schmidtke
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Why has global tax governance been politicized and how can we explain the varying intensity and content of public debates? This book offers an integrated theory of the politicization of international institutions and a detailed account of how the institutional design and policy output of tax governance...
Child Soldiers as Agents of War and Peace
A Restorative Transitional Justice Approach to Accountability for Crimes Under International Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
This book deals with child soldiers’ involvement in crimes under international law. Child soldiers are often victims of grave human rights abuses, and yet, in some cases, they also participate actively in inflicting violence upon others. Nonetheless, the international discourse on child soldiers...
by Tricia Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Terrorist groups with a shared enemy or ideology have ample reason to work together, even if they are primarily pursuing different causes. Although partnering with another terrorist organization has the potential to bolster operational effectiveness, efficiency, and prestige, international alliances...