The Impact of the NAFTA on the North American marketplace has clearly manifested itself over the past year and the emergence of the World Trade Organization as the regulator of global commerce will h
A pathbreaking study carried out over a decade and a half analyzing the processes, policies, and factors involved when states incorporate additional territories, and when they relinquish control over
John Maynard Keynes, at the time a rising young economist, abruptly resigned his position as adviser to the British delegation negotiating the peace treaty ending World War I. Frustrated and angered
The impact of (international) armed conflict on international economic law has become a subject of renewed interest since, in particular, the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988 and, to a lesser extent, the Fa
The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust years is one of helpless victims under a death sentence, unable to fight consignment to the ghettos, to the camps, and to the gas chambers.
1994 is the International Year of the Family, and debates about the rights of the child are once again at the top of the national and international legal and political agenda. Yet in places of armed c
A detailed case study of how international environmental treaties can be made more effective. Combining theoretical analysis with a rigorous empirical evaluation of changes in the compliance process o
From the Nuremberg trials to the grisly campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in today's Bosnia, the world recognizes that certain actions are morally and legally unacceptable even in the midst of war. This
In 1985, faced with conflicts involving Iran and Iraq, the United Nations Security Council's permanent members joined forces for the first time to mobilize the U.N. against threats to international pe
Tolley (political science, U. of Cincinnati) traces the history of the non-government body from its 1952 founding by the CIA to combat Communism, the ending of covert funding in 1967, the subsequent f
Rules of origin are becoming more and more important and controversial in international trade relations. It is increasingly realized that such rules have the potential to be used as trade-restricting
This extensively revised, updated, and expanded edition takes into account a wide range of events in appraising the role of the United Nations in international relations including: the end of the Cold
Recent events in South America, central Europe, Africa, and Russia have again brought to the world's attention the complex interrelationship between states of emergency and the preservation of fundame
