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Political Violence and the International Community
BRILL 2007; US$ 145.00"Developments in International Law and Policy: Political Violence and the International Community" considers how the international community practice of responding to political violence has influenced the international law perspective. more...
Targeted Killings and International Law
Springer 2011; US$ 119.99Existing international law is capable to govern the "war on terror" also in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. The standards generally applicable to targeted killings are those of human rights law. Force may be used in order to address immediate threats, preventive killings are permitted under strict preconditions but targeted killings... more...
Komparative Strafzumessung.
Duncker & Humblot 2011; US$ 66.86Hauptbeschreibung Ungleichmäßigkeiten in der Strafzumessungspraxis werden bis heute als nicht befriedigend gelöstes Problem angesehen. Auch existieren für die konkrete Bemessung der Strafhöhe kaum Vorgaben, obwohl Fragen der Strafzumessung seit einigen Jahrzehnten die verdiente Beachtung in Literatur und Rechtsprechung gefunden haben. Vor diesem... more...
§ 46a StGB - Revisionsfalle oder sinnvolle Bereicherung des Sanktionenrechts?
Duncker & Humblot 2011; US$ 62.55Hauptbeschreibung Mit der Einführung des § 46a StGB wurden neue Möglichkeiten der Berücksichtigung von Wiedergutmachungsleistungen des Täters im Rahmen der Strafzumessung geschaffen, die in der Praxis bislang wenig genutzt werden. Ausgangspunkt der Dissertation ist, dass die geringe praktische Relevanz zumindest teilweise auf dem Fehlen eines allgemeinen... more...
International Sanctions
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 55.95The main theme of the book is that the new types of sanctions constitute a challenge to the international system. First, there are more of the targeted sanctions, including financial, travel, aviation, special commodity and arms sanctions. Furthermore, there are considerable but varied practices in implementation. Also there are now sanctions by new... more...
The Responsibility to Protect
International Development Research Centre 2001; US$ 15.00The international community faces no more critical issue currently than how to protect people caught in new and large-scale humanitarian crises ? humanitarian intervention has been controversial both when it has happened, as in Kosovo, and when it has failed to happen, as in Rwanda. While there is general agreement internationally that we should not... more...
The Responsibility to Protect
International Development Research Centre 2001; US$ 30.00In his Millennium Report to the United Nations General Assembly, Secretary-General Kofi Annan challenged the international community to address the real dilemmas posed by intervention and sovereignty. The independent International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) was established by the Canadian government in September 2000 to... more...
Humanitarian Intervention
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 38.00An interdisciplinary approach to humanitarian intervention by experts in law, politics, and ethics. more...
United Nations Sanctions and the Rule of Law
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 50.00Farrall surveys the history of UN sanctions. more...
Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 17.95Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it wait until an attack is in progress? Is the Bush Doctrine of aggressive preventive action a justified and legal recourse against threats posed by terrorists and rogue states? Tackling one of the most controversial policy issues of the post-September 11 world, Michael... more...









