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Law of Treaties, The
Antonio Remiro Brotons
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
The Law of Treaties Introduction The Law of Treaties is a set of international and national rules that governs the life of treaties from their ...
Military Necessity
David Turns
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Military Necessity Introduction Military necessity is one of the most fundamental yet most misunderstood and misrepresented principles of the i...
Minorities
Kristin Henrard
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Minorities Introduction Although there is still no generally agreed-upon definition of the concept “minority,” it has become clear that most i...
Nationality and Statelessness
Laura van Waas
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Nationality and Statelessness Introduction Nationality is the legal bond between a person and a state. It denotes membership and gives rise to ...
Natural Law
Craig Reeves
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Natural Law Introduction Natural law as a field of jurisprudence is part of a wider tradition of thought whose roots reach back into Greek phil...
New Approaches to International Law
Thomas Skouteris
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
New Approaches to International Law Introduction New Approaches to International Law captions scholarly work that has become known under numero...
Organizations, International
Alison Duxbury
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
International Organizations Introduction Since World War II, both the number and the variety of international organizations operating in the in...
Peace Keeping
Nigel D. White
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Peacekeeping Introduction Peacekeeping is a development of the Cold War. It was not envisaged by the UN Charter of 1945, but it has proved ...
Piracy
Monique Cormier, Gerry Simpson
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Piracy Introduction International law, it might be argued, is a legal system directed toward the defeat or suppression of a category of violato...
Political Science, International Law and
Wouter Werner
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
International Law and Political Science Introduction During the first decades following World War II, international law and international polit...
Positivism
Jörg Kammerhofer
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Positivism Introduction Legal positivism means different things to different scholars, and traditions of positivism differ among legal scholars...
Protection, Diplomatic
Stephan Wittich
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Diplomatic Protection Introduction Diplomatic protection is one of the traditional concepts of classical international law that has developed ov...
Rational Choice Theory
Anne van Aaken
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Rational Choice Theory Introduction International law scholarship has predominantly been doctrinal in nature. Nevertheless, international law ...
Recognition
Jean d’Aspremont
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Recognition Introduction Recognition occupies a central place in state practice and in the literature, but this does not necessarily mean that...
Reparations
Carla Ferstman
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Reparations Introduction Reparation refers to the process and result of remedying the damage or harm caused by an unlawful act. The purpose of ...
Right of Self-Defense, The
Mary Ellen O’Connell
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
The Right of Self-Defense Introduction Humanity has always recognized that individuals should have the right to defend themselves from violence...
Russian Approaches to International Law
Alexander Merezhko
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Russian Approaches in International Law Introduction Contemporary Russian doctrine of international law has grown out of the Soviet school of i...
Sanctions, International
Iain Cameron
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
International Sanctions Introduction There is no authoritative definition in international relations of sanction. One commonly used definition ...
Secession
Theodore Christakis
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Secession Introduction The term secession designates the unilateral withdrawal from a state of part of its territory and population with the wi...
Self-Determination
James Summers
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Self-Determination Introduction The right of peoples to self-determination is their right to freely determine their political status and fr...
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