Böcker i Studies in International Law-serien

The role and position of non-state actors in international law is the subject of a long-standing and intensive scholarly debate. This book explores the participation of this new category of actors in an international legal system that has historically been dominated by states. It explores the most important issues, actors and theoretical approaches with respect to these new participants in international law. It provides the reader with a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the most important legal and political developments and perspectives.Relevant non-state actors discussed in this volume include, in particular, international governmental organisations, international non-governmental organisations, multinational companies, investors and armed opposition groups. Their legal position is considered in relation to specific issue-areas, such as humanitarian law, human rights, the use of force and international responsibility. The main legal theories on non-state actors'' position in international law - neo-positivism, the policy-oriented approach and transnational law - are covered at the beginning of the book, and the essential political science perspectives - on non-state actors'' role in international politics and globalisation, as well as their soft power - are presented at the end.

The principal aim of this book is to address the international legal questions arising from the 'right of visit on the high seas' in the 21st century.

This book provides a rigorous application of international legal rules governing the proper interpretation of the institutions' mandates.

This book responds to the contemporary challenges faced by the international protection regime, in particular the human rights of those displaced.

This book restates the deliberative ideal developed by Habermas, and applies this to the systems of global governance.

The increasingly transnational nature of terrorist activities compels the international community to strengthen the legal framework in which counter-terrorist activities should occur, including at the intergovernmental level. This monograph examines one such important intergovernmental organisation, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

This book is the second in a series which addresses practical issues relating to contracting under the Cape Town Convention.

This book analyses the legal questions raised by terrorism, and efforts to fight it, from the perspective of international humanitarian law.

UN peacekeeping operations, long expected to use force only in self-defence and to act impartially, are now being relied upon as a means to maintain and restore security. Through a close examination of 21st century peacekeeping operations the book shows that they are fundamentally ill-suited to the enforcement-type tasks being asked of them.

This book argues that an international community of liberal states has increasingly demonstrated a tendency to deny non-liberal states their previously held sovereign right to non-intervention; and that this has impacted profoundly on international law.

In this powerfully argued book, Conklin critically evaluates traditional efforts to recognise and reduce statelessness.

Based on author's thesis (doctoral), University of Meunster, 2013.

This book explores how contract claims against states are dealt with in the parallel processes of treaty-based and contract-based arbitration.

This book considers the effects of sovereignty and bilateralism on the Gibraltar dispute, and examines the resulting deficits of governance.

This edited collection focuses upon the growth and complexity of legal methods used in international dispute settlement, which includes judicial settlement, arbitration and other legal means.

The aim of this book is the quest for a well-balanced legal system that reconciles predictability and flexibility in the law of maritime delimitation.

This book offers comprehensive institutional, thematic and regional analysis of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

This book examines the burgeoning relationship between the ICJ and the right of self-defence.

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the powers of the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

This book addresses a broad range of theoretical and practical aspects of the question of allocation of authority in international law.

This book considers the link between the discipline of international lawyers and the foundations issues of jurisprudential method.

This book reviews state responses to terrorist violence and assesses the effects of modern counterterrorism law and policies on democratic states.

This book assesses whether the 'war on terror' can be accommodated within the existing legal framework limiting the use of force.

The book investigates whether amnesty entails violation of a state's international obligations or whether it can contribute to peace and justice.

This book deals with the proliferation of SALW and their unregulated trade and transfer across borders.