Author: Louis Henkin
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: international, law, developments, politics, values
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 1995-01-25
List price: $251.50
ISBN-10: 0792329082
ISBN-13: 9780792329084

This volume derives from a series of lectures delivered as the `general course’ at the Hague Academy of International law in July 1989. Like those lectures, this volume does not pretend to provide a complete treatise covering all international law. Rather, it offers a particular perspective on the principal subjects of traditional international law, elaborates new developments, and dares reexamine assumptions and premises. The book is built on three themes. The first addresses law as politics, and international law as the law of a political system, now comprised of more than 18

Author: Peter van Ham
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: international, relations, new, politics, social, power
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2010-05-04
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 0415564212
ISBN-13: 9780415564212

Social power, defined as "the ability to set standards, create norms and values that are deemed legitimate and desirable, without resorting to coercion or payment", is a central part of contemporary international politics. This text introduces and defines the concept of social power and considers how it works in international politics. It demonstrates how social power is a complex phenomenon that manifests itself in a wide variety of ways and circumstances, particularly in culture, institutions, law, and the media. Providing a global perspective on the role of social power from the EU, the U

Author: Shabtai Rosenne
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
Keywords: international, law, monographs, academy, hague, perplexities, modern
Number of Pages: 498
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $196.00
ISBN-10: 9004136924
ISBN-13: 9789004136922

This is a revised and updated version of the General Course on Public International Law delivered at the Hague Academy of International Law in the year 2001. The century just ended has seen the greatest transformation of human society in all of recorded history. With that, the pattern of international relations and international law based on the sovereign nation State and the Peace of Westphalia (1648) has also witnessed radical transformation. The whole system that existed one hundred years ago has been swept away in a series of bloody wars, revolutions and social upheavals (violent and non-v

Author: C. F. Amerasinghe
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: law, international, studies, comparative, cambridge, organizations, principles, institutional
Number of Pages: 572
Published: 2005-03-14
List price: $62.00
ISBN-10: 0521545579
ISBN-13: 9780521545570

This second edition of C.F. Amerasinghe’s successful book has been revised to include a new chapter on judicial organs of international organizations, as well as a considerably developed chapter on dispute settlement. Amerasinghe examines the local remedies rule in terms of both historical and modern international law. He considers customary international law as well as the application of the rule to, among others, human rights protection and international organizations.Book DescriptionThis second edition of C.F. Amerasinghe’s successful book, which covers all the important institu

Authors:Aghahosseini, M.,
Publisher: BRILL
Keywords: international, law, developments, customary, development, dual, nationals, claims
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 2007-07-16
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 9004156984
ISBN-13: 9789004156982

The law governing the international claims of dual nationals relates to, and is influenced by, the wider subject of the individual’s standing at the international level.

Author: Robert Mitchell Ster
Publisher: University of Michigan Pre
Keywords: international, economics, studies, economy, services
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2001-04-13
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0472112171
ISBN-13: 9780472112173

This book contains selected papers from the First World Services Congress, a forum designed to enhance awareness of the increasingly important role of services in the global economy and to reach out to governments, the business community, international organizations, academicians, and the media. The Congress served as a vehicle for the presentation and discussion of academic research on the entire spectrum of services issues, as well as business options and issues.The volume is divided into three parts. Part 1 deals with measurement, modeling, and analysis and covers such topics as measuring p

Author: Hans Kelse
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Keywords: international, studies, affairs, school, fletcher, law, principles
Number of Pages: 461
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1584773251
ISBN-13: 9781584773252

Kelsen, Hans. Principles of International Law. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc. [1952]. xvii, 461 pp. Reprint available 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-325-1. Cloth. $85. Upon his retirement from the faculty of University of California at Berkeley in 1952, noted legal philosopher and political scientist Han Kelsen [1881-1973] produced arguably this his most important work, "... a systematic study of the most important aspects of international law, including international delicts and sanctions, reprisals, the spheres of validity and the essential function of international law,