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Democracy and Peace Makingby Philip Towle
Routledge 2000; US$ 138.00A study of the changing objectives and role of postwar peace-making over the last two centuries. more...
Globalisation and the Rule of Lawby Spencer Zifcak
Routledge 2004; US$ 41.95This book reassesses the idea of the 'rule of law' within the present complex and increasingly internationalised environment and is the first to relate globalisation exclusively to law. more...
International Law from Belowby Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 34.00This first-ever analysis of international law using social movement theory provides a fundamental critique of modern international law. Rajagopal suggests that with transnational/local social movement action becoming increasingly central - witnessed in Seattle in 1999 - a new law-based global order must take the resistance of social movements more seriously. more...
United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Lawby Michael Byers; Georg Nolte
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 58.00Leading scholars consider the effects of US hegemony on the international legal system. This book demonstrates that the effects of US predominance on the foundations of international law are real, but also intensely complex. Of interest to scholars of international law and international relations, government officials and international organisations. more...
Diversity and Self-Determination in International Lawby Karen Knop; James Crawford; John Bell
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 49.00When does international law give a group the right to choose its sovereignty? In a fresh perspective on this familiar question, Knop analyzes how many of the groups that self-determination most affects have been marginalized in its interpretation and how key cases have grappled with this problem of diversity. more...
The Gentle Civilizer of Nationsby Martti Koskenniemi
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 78.00Koskenniemi combines legal analysis, historical and political critique and semi-biographical studies to trace the emergence of a liberal sensibility relating to international matters in the late nineteenth century, and its subsequent decline post Second World War. This highly readable and learned study ends with a critique of post-1960 'instrumentalism'. more...
International Law in Antiquityby David J. Bederman; James Crawford; John Bell
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 58.00This study of the origins of international law contains up-to-date literature and archaeological evidence. David J. Bederman examines three critical areas in which law influenced ancient state relations - diplomacy, treaty-making and warfare - in the Near East (2800-700 BCE), the Greek city-states (500-338 BCE), and Rome (358-168 BCE). more...
Law and Colonial Culturesby Lauren Benton; Michael Adas; Edmund Burke III; Philip D. Curtin
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 26.00Advances a new perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics, it uses case studies to trace a shift from the multicentric law of early empires to the state-centered law of the colonial world. more...
Enforcing Obligations Erga Omnes in International Lawby Christian J. Tams; James Crawford; John Bell
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 35.00The concept of obligations erga omnes - obligations to the international community as a whole - has fascinated international lawyers for decades. This book shows how this highly controversial concept has become part of modern-day international law, and how it will enhance human rights in the future. more...
Juricultural pluralism vis-à-vis treaty lawby S.L. Bunn-Livingstone
BRILL 2002; US$ 71.00This title discusses how divergent individual, state, and regional cultures impact the international legal system in the law and state practice vis-a-vis treaty interpretation and reservations. more...