Product Description: Advanced Introduction to International Conflict and Security Law provides a concise and insightful guide to the key principles of international law governing peacetime security, the use of force, conflict and post-conflict situations...read more

Product Description: This analysis of collective security covers its institutional, operational and legal parameters along with the United Nations system, presenting it as a global public order institution for maintaining peace. The authors study its constitutional premises as they are shaped by the forces of law and politics...read more

Product Description: The response of governments to terrorism is one of the most controversial issues of the twenty-first century. Balancing the desire to achieve security with the safeguarding of human rights has proved to be highly contentious.This book analyzes the international rule of law framework in which counter-terrorism responses occur, namely those of international human rights, humanitarian, criminal, and refugee law...read more

Product Description: International dispute settlement plays a fundamental role in maintaining the fabric of the international legal order, reflecting the desire of States - and increasingly, non-State actors - to resolve their differences through international dispute procedures and other legal mechanisms...read more

Product Description: The articles and essays in this volume consider the problem of international terrorism from an international legal perspective. The articles address a range of issues starting with the dilemma of how to reach agreement on what constitutes terrorism and how to encapsulate this in a legitimate definition...read more

Product Description: The focus of this four volume series is on the law of peace and how international law underpins and helps to achieve the conditions of peace and security between states. In times of peace the main fear is of sudden attack, with current concern directed to weapons of mass destruction and terrorism...read more

Product Description: 'Featuring some of the field's most expert thinkers, this is an adroitly constructed volume of essays in 'conflict and security law'. The writing here offers a distillation of the major legal projects in the area while dissolving some of international law's most rigid demarcations (e...read more

Product Description: With the end of the Second World War a new world order arose based on the prohibition of military force in international relations, and yet since 1945 British troops have been regularly deployed around the globe: most notably to Korea, Suez, Cyprus, and the Falklands during the Cold War; and Kuwait, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq since the fall of the Berlin Wall...read more

Product Description: This textbook provides an introduction to and analysis of the major theories and controversies of jurisprudence. Starting with an overview of the nature of jurisprudence, the author then moves on to examine the content, main protagonists, implications, and problems of the major theories in more detail...read more

Product Description: The United Nations is one of the largest providers of assistance in post-conflict situations in the world. This book considers the human rights standards applicable to the United Nations and applied by the United Nations in post-conflict situations, including East Timor, Kosovo and Afghanistan...read more

Product Description: This new edition considers the unifying legal attributes that span vastly differing inter-governmental organisations from the UN to the EU. A law of international organisations has become established in certain areas such as legal personality, powers, membership, finance – and decision-making...read more

To what extent does the United Nations system work? This comprehensive survey of the world's most important family of international organizations examines the UN's structure and powers, and considers whether it is achieving what it set out to do. Focusing on legal rather than political issues, White first examines the UN's objectives, not only as defined in the original charter and the constituent documents of its various agencies, but also in terms of how its goals and values have been implemented. He then explores its institutional structure, explaining each body's powers and the relationships among them; here, he also evaluates the various bodies in terms of democratic accountability and transparency. In the core of the book, a wide-ranging review of UN activities, he assesses whether the organization has sufficient powers to implement its goals in the key areas of security, justice, human rights, the environment and economic development.

Product Description: This work focuses on the United Nations which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1995, half a century on from the end of the second world war. It examines the roles the UN has played in maintaining peace and the legal and practical problems faced in the operation of multi-national forces...read more

Product Description: This work describes and analyses the operation of international institutions in the aversion, regulation and mitigation of non-international armed conflicts. The first part covers the basic legal principles governing civil wars, while the second part examines practice...read more

Product Description: Describes the substance and application of the provision of international law in relation to armed conflicts and the use of force. The text examines legal constraints upon resorting to force in the conduct of international relations, and the law relating to the conduct of armed conflicts in being...read more