Former Yugoslavia Through Documents

Former Yugoslavia Through Documents
Author: Snezana Trifunovska
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 1394
Release: 1999-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004639829

From the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s onwards, the world's attention has been occupied with the events which eventually led to the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and to the creation of five independent and sovereign states. Apart from the humanitarian disaster and the devastated economies of the countries created on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, it brought some important issues of international law to the forefront, and provided the impetus for some new and rapid developments. The book is an epilogue to the first, very successful, collection Yugoslavia through Documents: from its creation to its dissolution, published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers in 1994. However, because of the complexity of the issues in the political, military, humanitarian and legal fields, its structure is different. The book is divided into an Introduction and nine Parts, each of them dealing with specific issues and containing, where appropriate, the Editor's note, comment or additional information. These two volumes constitute an absolutely essential collection for all research libraries.

Threats of Force and International Law

Threats of Force and International Law
Author: Agata Kleczkowska
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2023-06-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000898458

Threats of force are an inherent part of communication between some States. One prominent example is the 2017–2018 crisis in relations between the United States and North Korea, marked by multiple threats issued by both sides. Yet, despite the fact that States seem to use threats of force with unlimited freedom, they are prohibited by international law. This book presents threats of force from the perspective of the practice of States. Thus, the book is based on an examination of multiple cases when States reported threats of force. It describes what threats of force are, examines the status of the prohibition of threats of force as a legal norm, presents examples and describes the mechanisms that are available for States in case threats occur, as well as their legal consequences. The book will be an invaluable resource for academics and researchers in the areas of international security law, public international law, law of armed conflict and international relations.

Law, War and the Penumbra of Uncertainty

Law, War and the Penumbra of Uncertainty
Author: Sam Selvadurai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2022-04-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1316511987

An exploration into how uncertainty and political and ethical biases affect international law governing the use of force.

The Routledge Handbook of Self-Determination and Secession

The Routledge Handbook of Self-Determination and Secession
Author: Ryan D. Griffiths
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2023-02-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000833127

The Routledge Handbook of Self-Determination and Secession explores the various debates surrounding the issues of self-determination and secession, and the legal, political, and normative implications they give rise to. Offering a broad survey of the state of the sub-discipline today, the chapters are divided into seven key parts: an Introduction, Self-Determination, Explaining and Justifying Secession, Secession Strategies, Counter-Secession Strategies, International Law and Secession, and Constitutional Law and Secession. The authors, from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, explore all the recent approaches to secession and self-determination based on strategic interaction of major actors in a secession process. This handbook will be of great interest to students and researchers from a variety of disciplines including politics and international relations, security studies, and law.

International Territorial Administration

International Territorial Administration
Author: Ralph Wilde
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2010-09-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199577897

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the reasons why international organizations have engaged in territorial administration. The book describes the role of international territorial administration and analyses the various purposes associated with this activity, revealing the objectives which territorial administration seeks to achieve.

The Use of Force in International Law

The Use of Force in International Law
Author: Tom Ruys
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1274
Release: 2018-04-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 019108719X

The international law on the use of force is one of the oldest branches of international law. It is an area twinned with the emergence of international law as a concept in itself, and which sees law and politics collide. The number of armed conflicts is equal only to the number of methodological approaches used to describe them. Many violent encounters are well known. The Kosovo Crisis in 1999 and the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 spring easily to the minds of most scholars and academics, and gain extensive coverage in this text. Other conflicts, including the Belgian operation in Stanleyville, and the Ethiopian Intervention in Somalia, are often overlooked to our peril. Ruys and Corten's expert-written text compares over sixty different instances of the use of cross border force since the adoption of the UN Charter in 1945, from all out warfare to hostile encounters between individual units, targeted killings, and hostage rescue operations, to ask a complex question. How much authority does the power of precedent really have in the law of the use of force?