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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...
State Responsibility
Silvia Borelli
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
State Responsibility Introduction State responsibility constitutes a central institution of the system of public international law. The law of ...
Territorial Title
Masaharu Yanagihara
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Territorial Title Introduction Especially essential for the existence of modern European international law is a state with a “defined territory...
Terrorism
Ben Saul
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Terrorism Introduction International law has struggled to regulate terrorism for over a century, beginning with efforts to cooperate in the ext...
Theory, Critical International Legal
Jason Beckett
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Critical International Legal Theory Introduction Although most writings on public international law (PIL) possess an esprit critique, what dis...
Treaty Interpretation
Isabelle Van Damme
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Treaty Interpretation Introduction The practice and theory of treaty interpretation form a classical theme of the law of treaties. As with othe...
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