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The New Sovereignty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

The New Sovereignty

In an increasingly complex and interdependent world, states resort to a bewildering array of regulatory agreements to deal with problems as disparate as climate change, nuclear proliferation, international trade, satellite communications, species destruction, and intellectual property. In such a system, there must be some means of ensuring reasonably reliable performance of treaty obligations. The standard approach to this problem, by academics and politicians alike, is a search for treaties with "teeth"--military or economic sanctions to deter and punish violation. The New Sovereignty argues that this approach is misconceived. Cases of coercive enforcement are rare, and sanctions are too co...

Borderless Wars
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

Borderless Wars

  • Categories: Law

This book investigates the legal implications of 'gray area' military operations in counterinsurgency, cyber warfare and the war on terror.

International Law and Ethnic Conflict
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 367

International Law and Ethnic Conflict

The breakup of the former Yugoslavia demonstrates the limitations of international law in the face of ethnic conflict. The contributors to this book examine the various roles international law and international institutions play in dealing with ethnic conflict. International Law and Ethnic Conflict first covers general philosophical, historical, and cultural issues arising from attempts to apply international law to ethnic conflict. The authors assess the legitimacy of demands based on group identity, the legal rights of ethnic groups, the validity of various entitlement claims, and the meaning of statehood. They then consider the institutional and policy responses of international organizations and states in their attempts to deal with ethnic conflict and analyze the extent to which various forms of intervention prove successful.

Engaging Countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 644

Engaging Countries

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

This study systematically examines how states implement and comply with international environmental accords.

International Law and Ethnic Conflict
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

International Law and Ethnic Conflict

  • Categories: Law

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Managing Conflict in the Former Soviet Union
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 580

Managing Conflict in the Former Soviet Union

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

This collaborative effort by Russian and American scholars documents Russian policy toward ethno-national conflict in its "near abroad," American policy toward these conflicts, and the attempts of international organizations to prevent and resolve them. Case studies consider the causes, dynamics, and prospects of conflicts in Latvia, the Crimea, the Transdniester region of Moldova, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and the region of North Ossetia and Ingushetia.

Multilateral Compliance Mechanisms in EU Environmental Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Multilateral Compliance Mechanisms in EU Environmental Law

  • Categories: Law

Prompted by recent events in the EU’s international environmental cooperation, this thought-provoking book explores the establishment and use of multilateral environmental compliance mechanisms as part of the EU’s external environmental action. Expanding upon current discussions in external relations law, this timely book uses a doctrinal approach to analyse EU engagement with this key instrument of treaty-based international environmental governance.

Defending Deterrence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

Defending Deterrence

A collection of essays that pose some interesting questions about future compliance with the 1972 ABM treaty

Imagine Coexistence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Imagine Coexistence

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-04-30
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  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass

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