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by Gisela Haege
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: International Organisations, grade: 70 Points (distinction), Lancaster University (Politics and International Relations), course: International Organisations and Foreign Policy, 41 entries in the bibliography,...
by Robbie Sabel
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
This new third edition is a comprehensive manual of the rules of procedure and conduct of business at the UN General Assembly, at international conferences and at assemblies of inter-governmental organisations such as the World Health Organization. It examines the legal basis of these rules, the history...
International Heritage Law for Communities
Exclusion and Re-Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
This book critically engages the shortcomings of the field of international heritage law, seen through the lenses of the five major UNESCO treaties for the safeguarding of different types of heritage. It argues that these five treaties have effectively prevented local communities, who bear the brunt...
by Maayan Geva
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book investigates the Israeli engagement with international law in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) between 1967 and 2009. Grounded in a field-based study of the military International Law Department, it examines the dynamic position and impact that international law has...
by Tatiana Gladkikh
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Globalisation influences every aspect of post-modern social reality. However, little empirical research has considered how globalisation affects people’s perception of their national attachments. This book explores the nature of national identity in our increasingly globalised society. "Who...
International Conflicts, 1816-2010
Militarized Interstate Dispute Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
A militarized interstate dispute (MID) refers to international conflict short of war. The MID dataset from the Correlates of War Project catalogs summary data on all threats, displays, and uses of force between two or more states. These dispute data are essential in quantitative analyses of international...
Do International Corruption Metrics Matter?
The Impact of Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Transparency International’s CPI is used as the authoritative tool to assess countries’ corruption perceptions scores by both international governments and several international agencies. The use and reference of TI’s CPI does not translate as the main factor in regards to the increase and or...
by Michael Fakhri
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book traces the changing meanings of free trade over the past century through three sugar treaties and their concomitant institutions. The 1902 Brussels Convention is an example of how free trade buttressed the British Empire. The 1937 International Sugar Agreement is a story of how a group of...
Federalism, Secession, and International Recognition Regime
Iraqi Kurdistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Federalism is widely believed to be an efficient tool to quell ethnic conflict, yet recently there has been a pronounced global tendency among ethnic minorities to break away from larger nations. Iraqi Kurdistan, a region within the newly established Iraqi federation, also harbors plans to proclaim...
The Participation of the EU in International Dispute Settlement
Lessons from EU Investment Agreements
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
The topic of this book is the participation of the EU in international dispute settlement. It aims to
provide the reader with an appraisal of the most problematic aspects connected with the participation
of a sui generis legal subject such as the EU to international dispute settlement...
Tunisia's International Relations since the 'Arab Spring'
Transition Inside and Out
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
When popular protests started in Tunisia in late 2010, few anticipated the implications these events would have for the entire Arab region. In the following years, this region witnessed deep changes, increased divisions, and even failing states. Meanwhile, Tunisia managed to assert itself as a new...
New Directions in Global Political Governance
The G8 and International Order in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Focused on politics and security, this volume extends the G8 and Global Governance series into the domain of international security in both its classic and newer forms. Going beyond the conventional focus on globalization, it takes up the central question of shaping international order, looking at...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
The purpose of this book is to explore what role ethical discourse plays in public and private international law. The book seeks (1) to delineate the role of ethical investigation in creating, sustaining, challenging and changing international law and (2) to open up a conversation between two related...
Fighting for Rights
From Holy Wars to Humanitarian Military Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In the light of NATO's humanitarian war in Kosovo is it possible to understand or explain wars as an outcome of perceptions of rights? How did rights, be they divine rights in the Middle Ages, territorial rights in the eighteenth century, or human rights today, become something that people are willing...