A Different Kind of Power?
China-ASEAN Relations and International Law
International Law in Europe, 700-1200 (Artes Liberales)
by Jenny Benham
Was there international law in the Middle Ages? Using treaties as its main source, this book examines the extent to which such a system of rules was known and followed in the period 700 to 1200. It considers how consistently international legal rules were obeyed, whether there was a reliance on justification of action and whether the system had the capacity to resolve disputed questions of fact and law. The book further sheds light on issues such as compliance, enforcement, deterrence, authority...
Human Rights and Foreign Policy (Southampton Studies in International Policy)
This is an exploration of the moral and pragmatic dilemmas involved in the relationships between states in an era of change, derived from a workshop held by the Centre for International Policy Studies. The concern of those present was to examine human rights in the contemporary world.
Human Rights in the World Community (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Specifically designed for educational use in international relations, law, political science, economics, and philosophy classes, Human Rights in the World Community treats the full range of human rights issues, including key paradoxes and contestations surrounding human rights, implementation problems, and processes involving international, national, and nongovernmental action. This new, expanded edition reflects the global, large-scale change that has occurred in the field of human rights, incl...
Greece and EC Membership Evaluated (EC Membership Evaluated S.)
Within the context of each member state's national interests, the titles in this series analyze the implementation of EC policy in four areas: economic policy; political and legal policy; social and cultural policy; the future of European integration. This title examines Greece. One of the poorer member states of the EC, Greece has had to make more adjustments to its economy than most in order to survive. The imposition of austerity measures coupled with raging inflation caused a massive politic...
This book examines the impact of transnationalism on the changing relationship between refugees and the state. It has three main themes: the unresolved theoretical debate about the impact of transnationalism on national-states; the increasingly transnational context within which asylum seekers and refugees move and are controlled and managed; the future of asylum and prospects for asylum seekers and refugees. The book is theoretically innovative, topical and based on recent, original empirical m...
Cooperation under Fire (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
by Jeffrey W. Legro
Why do nations cooperate even as they try to destroy each other? Jeffrey Legro explores this question in the context of World War II, the "total" war that in fact wasn't. During the war, combatant states attempted to sustain agreements limiting the use of three forms of combat considered barbarous—submarine attacks against civilian ships, strategic bombing of civilian targets, and chemical warfare. Looking at how these restraints worked or failed to work between such fierce enemies as Hitler's T...
US Hegemony and the Project of Universal Human Rights (Southampton Studies in International Policy)
by T. Evans
Human rights is often claimed as the 'idea' of our time. However, although considerable time, energy and resources have been invested in the idea, and extravagant claims are often made about progress in providing machinery for the protection of human rights, there are few signs that violations are any less common than in the past. This book argues that while the USA was instrumental in establishing the 'idea' of human rights as a dominant theme in the day-to-day rhetoric of international relatio...
Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 3 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, #345)
This book covers all aspects of robot intelligence from perception at sensor level and reasoning at cognitive level to behavior planning at execution level for each low level segment of the machine. It also presents the technologies for cognitive reasoning, social interaction with humans, behavior generation, ability to cooperate with other robots, ambience awareness, and an artificial genome that can be passed on to other robots. These technologies are to materialize cognitive intelligence, soc...
Leadership in the Big Bangs of European Integration (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)
This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of the major treaty reforms over the past two decades, to consider whether the path from the Single European Act in 1985 to the present Constitutional Treaty has been pushed by the Franco-German tandem, or has been the result of leadership provided the Commission or smaller member states.
Emphasizing change and continuity in politics, economics, and society; Politics in Russia is an authoritative overview of the Russian political system today. Politics in Russia is this Third Edition analyzes contemporary Russian political institutions and processes by discussing the conventions of post-communist Russia. - Details the Soviet-era approach to interest articulation, socialization, and planned economy, strengthening students understanding of Russia's political roots. - Helps students...
Multilevel Union Administration (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)
This book shows that the executive branch of government has added a supranational level, namely the European Commission, that increasingly seems to operate independently from national governments. Case studies illuminate how a genuine Union administration might evolve.
The Yearbook contains the official records of the International Law Commission and is an indispensable tool for the preservation of the legislative history of the documents emanating from the Commission, as well as for the teaching, study, dissemination and wider appreciation of the efforts undertaken by the Commission in the progressive development of international law and its codification. Volume II (Part Two) reproduces the edited version of the annual report of the Commission to the General...
International Justice and Impunity
by Nils Andersson, Daniel Iagolnitzer, and Diana G. Collier
Diese Arbeit thematisiert die wettbewerbsrechtliche Einordnung von Menschenrechtsverletzungen bei der auslandischen Warenproduktion. Der Grundgedanke befasst sich mit der Frage, inwieweit der Vertrieb von Waren, die unter dem Einsatz von menschenverachtenden Formen der Kinderarbeit gefertigt wurden, als ein lauteres geschaftliches Verhalten i.S. des UWG angesehen werden kann. Dazu werden die Corporate Social Responsibility Publikationen als Werbeform einer lauterkeitsrechtlichen UEberprufung unt...
Fixing Fractured Nations (Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific)
Asia's rising power and wealth offer its many oppressed ethnic minorities hope for greater political freedom and an end to violence. But the reality of this hope is cast into doubt by acute separatist conflict. This book provides fresh and factual assessments of separatist struggles and prospects for conflict resolution in eight countries of Asia.
Law and Procedures of the International Court of Justice volume 1
by Gerald Fitzmaurice
Political Rationale and International Consequences of the War in Libya
Political Rationale and International Consequences of the War in Libya focuses on the international intervention in Libya in 2011, and tries to answer two broad questions; (1) What was the political rationale for the various actors to proceed as they did in the lead-up and conduct of the military intervention in Libya?, (2) What are the consequences of the UN-authorized military intervention in Libya? R2P was the public raison d'etre of the war, and an important legitimizing factor of the inter...
Unimpeded Sailing (Brill's Studies in Maritime History)
by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, Steve Murdoch, and Leos Muller