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Globalization of Law and Human Rights: From Norms to Fulfillment
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 85.00How does the globalization of law, the emergence of multiple and shifting venues of legal accountability, enhance or evade the fulfillment of international human rights? Alison Brysk?s edited volume aims to assess the institutional and political factors that determine the influence of the globalization of law on the realization of human rights. ... more...
Elements of Genocide
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00Elements of Genocide provides an authoritative evaluation of the current perception of the crime, as it appears in the decisions of judicial authorities, the writings of the foremost academic experts in the field, and in the texts of Commission Reports. Genocide constitutes one of the most significant problems in contemporary international law. Within... more...
Cosmopolitan Government in Europe
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00The invocation of ?the market? has been omnipresent in media discussions of ?crisis Europe?. On the one hand, ?the market? is presented as that to which EU member states must collectively respond. It is the very purpose of a post-national government and that which dictates individual and collective identities. The expansion of market is that which... more...
The UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules
OUP Oxford 2013; US$ 299.99Reaching past the secrecy so often met in arbitration, the second edition of this commentary explains clearly and fully the workings of the UNCITRAL Rules of Arbitral Procedure recommended for use in 1976 by the United Nations. This new edition fully takes account of the revised Rules adopted in 2010 while maintaining coverage of the original Rules... more...
International Law, Rights and Politics
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 55.95Rein Mullerson was Deputy Foreign Minister of Estonia during the country's independence struggles and is a distinguished professor of international relations. His book is concerned with the interplay of international law and politics in the changing international system. He analyses events in Eastern Europe and the former USSR to throw light on broad... more...
The EU's Transformative Power
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 103.00Between 1989 and 2004, the EU's conditionality for membership transformed Central and East Europe. This book demonstrates how that transformation worked in practice. The EU was able to use its massive bargaining power coercively at certain key points in the membership preparations. However, its primary method was soft power, through 'Europeanizing'... more...
The European Union and Enlargement
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 130.00The European Union and Enlargement is about the EU's 'power of attraction' - an exploration of the potential for EU impact on conflicts within Europe - and the implications for the EU to influence the 'order' beyond its borders. It provides both a theoretical and historical context in order to understand the EU's impact and combines this with empirical... more...
Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU's Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 100.00This book is a study of EU conditionality and compliance during the enlargement to the Central and Eastern European candidate countries. EU conditionality for membership is widely understood as having been a driving force for Europeanization, providing incentives and sanctions for compliance or non-compliance with EU norms, such as the 'Copenhagen... more...
The Power of Legitimacy among Nations
Oxford University Press 1990; US$ 124.99An authority on international law considers why it is that rules within the international system are for the most part obeyed, even though they are not usually enforced. The text uses practical examples to show how international law works successfully even without formal codes or laws. more...
The European Union and the Developing Countries
BRILL 2005; US$ 88.00Authors from different backgrounds (including law, political science and economics) analyze the forces that gave rise to the new agreement as well as the negotiating process of the new agreement, and the negotiations that are taking place to produce the planned Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) that are to replace the existing non-reciprocal trade... more...









