Based on official records and reports, relevant secondary sources, and observations of members of the Convention's implementary organ, "The Convention on the Rights of the Child" describes and evaluat
This volume, the result of an ongoing research project on the Antarctic regime being carried out in various Italian universities, updates the 1987 volume, with only two contributions remaining from th
This is a book about international cooperation in the Antarctic, written by political scientists and international lawyers. They examine whether the Antarctic Treaty System succeeds in helping solve m
This unique software/book package challenges students to analyze and predict outcomes by comparing and contrasting the factors that contribute to conflict. CASCON software makes your text and classroo
The notion that a state that emerges victorious in war is entitled to claim sovereignty over conquered territory in virtue of military victory or conquest was a recognized principle of international l
An introduction to the UN System, with chapters on the league of Nations, the birth of the UN, collective security before detente and in the new era, the UN and international law, economic and social
At the request of UNESCO, Jiri Toman, Acting Director of the Henry Dunant Institute in Geneva has written this detailed analysis of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in
In this newly revised and expanded edition of the award-winning International Environmental Policy, Lynton Keith Caldwell updates his comprehensive survey of the global international movement for prot
Over the centuries, societies have gradually developed constraints on the use of armed force in the conduct of foreign relations. The crowning achievement of these efforts occurred in the midtwentieth
This is the first book to provide a thorough international legal account of the European micro-states. Jorri Duursma examines notions of self-determination and statehood in the context of internationa
From Versailles to Maastricht is a history of international organisation in the twentieth century. While particular attention is paid to the League of Nations, the United Nations and the European Unio
Environmental problems do not respect international boundaries; they affect the entire globe, and dealing with them is a matter for international political negotiation, law and institutions.Greening I
This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes
In recent years, international business disputes have increasingly been resolved through private arbitration. This pathbreaking book reveals for the first time how an elite, transnational legal profes
Argues that instruments which contain commitments are treaties and challenges popular notions proclaiming the existence of morally and politically binding agreements and so-called "soft-law," contendi
Deadly internal conflicts threaten dozens of countries and major regions around theworld. One of the most critical issues in contemporary international security, it is examined inthis book by twenty e
