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This book offers an exciting new take on the relationship between law and power. The 1856 Declaration of Paris marks the precise moment when international law became universal, and was an aggressive and successful British move to end privateering forever – then the United States' main weapon in case of war with Britain.
Saturation of sand specimens during experimental investigations is important to correctly reproduce undrained shearing behavior, including liquefaction. Sand below the water table is often well saturated in situ because any gases trapped during deposition or compaction have had adequate time to dissolve or migrate through the sand. Reproducing this condition on a short time scale in the laboratory often requires use of backpressure or vacuum saturation. However, backpressure and vacuum saturation sometimes cannot be utilized, for example, in centrifuge models containing soils sensitive to the effects of vacuum. This paper focuses on development and validation of a water pluviation device to construct saturated sand levees during a centrifuge testing program for which backpressure and vacuum methods could not be utilized. P-wave velocity, Vp, measurements using an ultrasound system verified the degree of saturation achieved in the fill. Correlations between Vp and B values are discussed. The vacuum saturation system is shown to provide a high degree of saturation (Vp > 1500 m/s), whereas more traditional water pluviation techniques are shown to produce unsaturated fill.
This book offers an exciting new take on the relationship between law and power. The 1856 Declaration of Paris marks the precise moment when international law became universal, and was an aggressive and successful British move to end privateering forever – then the United States' main weapon in case of war with Britain.
outside the continent. --Book Jacket.
Examines many seminal experiments in international adjudication and the origins of several major existing international courts.
Price of Power examines Henry Kissinger’s influence on the development of the foreign policy of the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon.
Chapter 9 The Hague as a framework for British and American newspapers' public presentations of the First World War -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Norway's legalistic approach to peace in the aftermath of the First World War -- The Scandinavian proposal for an international judicial organisation -- Drafting the Permanent Court of International Justice's statute -- The establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Against the Hague Conventions: Promoting new rules for neutralityin the Cold War -- The communist 're-discovery' of neutrality -- Attempts at reshaping neutrality in the Cold War era -- New rules for neutrals -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 12 The neutrals and Spanish neutrality: A legal approach to international peacein constitutional texts -- A commitment to peace -- (Re)defining neutrality in a system of collective security in the League of Nations era -- The law of war in an age of democracy -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Index