Treaties category: 216 books
Judge Knot
Politics and Development in International Investment Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
In recent decades, international legal constraints have shifted far beyond the national border. International lenders’ structural adjustment programs require states to slash budgets, privatize public enterprises and cut pensions. Trade agreements have shifted from locking in low tariffs to forbidding...
Greenprint
A New Approach to Cooperation on Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Beleaguered by mutual recrimination between rich and poor countries, squeezed by the zero-sum arithmetic of a shrinking global carbon budget, and overtaken by shifts in economic and hence bargaining power between these countries, international cooperation on climate change has floundered. Given these...
Rethinking the Bomb
Europe and Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The question of what Europe’s nuclear strategy should be is rarely discussed. While Europe continues to play a crucial role on issues relating to non-proliferation, particularly in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme, nuclear strategy is generally considered to be within remit of Russia,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Piratical attacks have become more frequent, violent, costly and increasingly threaten to undermine order in the international system. Much attention has focused on Somalia, but piracy is a problem worldwide. Recent coordination efforts among states in South East Asia appear to have helped in the...
by Eric A. Posner, David Weisbach
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Climate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should--indeed, must--directly address both issues together. But, in fact, this would be a serious mistake, one that, by dooming effective international limits on greenhouse gases,...
Deepening EU-Moldovan Relations
What, Why and How?
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The purpose of this Handbook is to make the legal content of the Association Agreement clearly comprehensible. It covers all the significant political and economic chapters of the Agreement, and in each case explains the meaning of the commitments made by Moldova and the challenges posed by their...
Deepening EU-Ukrainian Relations
What, Why and How?
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
The signing of the Association Agreement and DCFTA between Ukraine and the European Union in 2014 was an act of strategic, geopolitical significance in the history of Ukraine and Europe itself. Emblematic of a struggle to replace a corrupt, oligarch-controlled regime at home and to resist attempts...
India and Her Neighbours
Towards a Proactive Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The book, INDIA AND HERNEIGHBOURS : TOWEARDS A PROACTIVE PARTNERSHIP, analyses the emerging contours of India's foreign policy vis-a-vis its neighbours. India needs a closer relationship with its immediate neighbours as the small countries in the neighbourhood consider India as a viable partner. Focusing...
The Internationalists
How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
“An original book…about individuals who used ideas to change the world” (The New Yorker)—the fascinating exploration into the creation and history of the Paris Peace Pact, an often overlooked but transformative treaty that laid the foundation for the international system we live under today.
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by Luca Leone, Riccardo Noury, Moni Ovadia
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Srebrenica, Bosnia Erzegovina, 11 luglio 1995: oltre diecimila maschi tra i 12 e i 76 anni vengono catturati, torturati, uccisi e inumati in fosse di massa. Stesso destino hanno alcune giovani donne abusate dalla soldataglia. Le vittime sono bosniaci musulmani, da oltre tre anni assediati dalle forze...
by Efraim Karsh
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Originally published in 1988, this book examines the experiences of neutral states in Europe during the Second World War and in the postwar peiod. It examines both the practical and the theoretical considerations and the interface between the two, and discusses the implications of the experience of these countries for small states generally
The Power Triangle
Military, Security, and Politics in Regime Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Revolution, reform, and resilience comprise the respective fortunes of modern Iran, Turkey, and Egypt. Although the countries all experienced coups with remarkably similar ambitions, each followed a very different trajectory. Iran became an absolutist monarchy that was overthrown from below, Turkey...
Charter of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The most powerful military alliance in history, NATO shaped the geopolitical contours of the Cold War and continues to structure the contemporary international system. The NATO agreement is reprinted here with speeches and essential historical documents concerning the alliance’s founding and subsequent...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
It has been said many times that the human future is clouded by multiple and mutually interacting problems. While in the 19th century we had the luxury of believing in almost automatic progress - an "onward and upward" assumption - that belief has been shattered by two world wars, more than...