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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...

Space Law

Frans von der Dunk

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Space Law Introduction Space law is best defined as the law dealing in a substantial manner with human activities in outer space. Traditionally...