Product Description: The Second Edition of this renowned treasure trove of information about the most important laws and treaties enacted by the U.S. Congress now deepens its historical coverage and examines an entire decade of new legislation. Landmark Legislation 1774-2012 includes additional acts and treaties chosen for their historical significance or their precedential importance for later areas of major federal legislative activity in the over 200 years since the convocation of the Continental Congress...read more

In the course of the author's studies, he was drawn to the conclusion that the political rather than the military aspects of the WTO were more important, and more fruitful for research. But the author does not deny the substance of the military factors. Of the two, the political and the military, it is the author's analysis that the former takes precedence over the latter in the formal context of the organization. Where there are formal military ties, the author indicates their scope and significance. The author's conclusion is that the actual military relationships within the formal alliance are extremely limited. The content of this book reflects such an analysis. The policy throughout has been to base research on open original sources, not just from the Soviet Union but where possible from the non-Soviet members of the alliance. While Western sources have been consulted, they have played a peripheral part in the analysis. The aim has been to explain the WTO in the words of its own documents.

On the publication of its first edition, this textbook was welcomed as the definitive study of treaty law written from the viewpoint of an experienced practitioner. As with the first, this edition aims to provide the student and practitioner with a full understanding of the law and updates existing information and refines previous arguments. New to its scope of examination is the study of the use of memorandums of understanding (MOUs) in litigation, the treaty-making capacity of entities such as the Vatican, Taiwan and Palestine, and the effect of hostilities on treaties. Given their increasing importance, there is also a new chapter on international organisations, including an attempt to explain the sometimes baffling roles in treaty-making played by the European Community and European Union. Students and practitioners alike will find this an invaluable guide to this increasingly important subject.

Product Description: We all want people to do stuff. Whether you want your customers to buy from you, vendors to give you a good deal, your employees to take more initiative, or your spouse to make dinner-a large amount of every day is about getting the people around you to do stuff...read more

Product Description: The treaty of Rapallo, concluded in 1922 between Germany and the Soviet Union, the two vanquished powers of the Great War, ranks high among the diplomatic coups de surprise of the twentieth century. Its real importance, however, lies in the repercussions of the alliance on the subsequent policies of the two victorious powers, Britain and France...read more

The 1982 Law of the Sea Convention, the result of 14 years of negotiation, was accepted by 159 nations. It was, however, rejected by the Reagan administration, a position quite at odds with the widespread international support the treaty enjoyed from other nations. First discussed is the customary law of the sea and efforts to negotiate a stable, legal regime, focusing on seaward expansion of coastal-state jurisdiction. The book also looks at United Nations efforts to regulate the exploitation of deep-sea mineral deposits, the conflict between developed and developing states at the Third United Nations Conference for the Law of the Sea, and the decision by the United States to proceed unilaterally with seabed mining. An analysis is given of U.S. objections to the Convention and of the legal status of deep seabed resources, concluding with an evaluation of the Convention's importance to the United States. Extensive notes, bibliography and index conclude the text.

Product Description: This book accessibly and expertly details the history and implications of the BWC—the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention—a controversial arms control agreement drafted in the 1970’s meant to supplement the Geneva protocol for warfare from decades earlier...read more

Transforming NATO: New Allies, Missions, and Capabilities, by Ivan Dinev Ivanov, examines the three dimensions of NATO’s transformation since the end of the Cold War: the addition of a dozen new allies; the undertaking of new missions such as peacekeeping, crisis response, and stabilization; and the development of new capabilities to implement these missions. The book explains these processes through two mutually reinforcing frameworks: club goods theory and the concept of complementarities. NATO can be viewed as a diverse, heterogeneous club of nations providing collective defense to its members, who, in turn, combine their military resources in a way that enables them to optimize the Alliance’s capabilities needed for overseas operations.Transforming NATO makes a number of theoretical contributions. First, it offers new insights into understanding how heterogeneous clubs operate. Second, it introduces a novel concept, that of complementarities. Finally, it re-evaluates the relevance of club goods theory as a framework for studying contemporary international security. These conceptual foundations apply to areas well beyond NATO. They provide useful insights into understanding the operation of transatlantic relations, alliance politics, and a broader set of international coalitions and partnerships.This update in April 2013 covers new developments related to NATO’s transformation after this book was originally published: http://homepages.uc.edu/~ivanovid/pdfs/book_update.pdf

Product Description: This is the most detailed research on how Southeast European countries can utilize NATO alliances to foment counter-terrorism efforts. Security issues in Southeast Europe are tricky because the region has been in turmoil for many years...read more

Product Description: In Provisionally Applied Treaties: Their Binding Force and Legal Nature, Anneliese Quast Mertsch examines the binding force and legal nature of treaties during the period of their provisional application, a subject whose significance in practice is not reflected in the relatively limited attention it receives in academic writing...read more

Product Description: Drawing on the fields of political economy and historical sociology, Jones dispels the overwhelming consensus among scholars that members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) never interfere in the internal affairs of other states, and pioneers a new approach to the understanding of regional politics in Southeast Asia...read more

Product Description: Entre enero y julio de 1919, tras la primera guerra mundial, dirigentes de todo el mundo llegaron a Paris para asistir a la Conferencia de Paz que pondria orden en el mundo. Los «tres grandes» (Estados Unidos, Francia e Inglaterra) querian, entre otras cosas, levantar a Europa de las ruinas, obtener reparaciones de Alemania, detener el avance de la Revolucion rusa, y decidir sobre el destino de nuevas entidades politicas como Iraq, Yugoslavia o Palestina...read more

Product Description: The Good War tackles the issue of NATO in Afghanistan, exploring NATO's evolution in the 1990s and blending NATO's transformation from a reactive defense organization into a pro-active risk manager with the ethic of liberalism. It raises questions, such as why an alliance built upon the territorial defense of Europe ended up in Afghanistan...read more

Product Description: This publication provides information on the status of major multilateral instruments deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations (as of December 1, 2001) and covers a range of subject matters such as human rights, disarmament, commodities, refugees, the environment, and the law of the sea...read more

Product Description: Open source refers to an application whose source code is made available for use or modification as users see fit. This means libraries gain more flexibility and freedom than with software purchased with license restrictions. Both the open source community and the library world live by the same rules and principles...read more

Product Description: Alliances are characterized by an inherent struggle for power between the allies themselves to deal with a common external enemy. Yet diplomatic history clearly shows that, at the best of times, this cooperative dimension is only one of the many aspects in play: alongside it, or even in its place, there are often strong elements of competition between allies...read more

Product Description: Treaty Talks in British Columbia traces the origins and development of treaty negotiations in the province. Since the second edition of this book was published in 2000, a number of significant developments have occurred: a controversial referendum on treaty mandates was held; the historic Tsawwassen treaty, the first to be signed in the BC treaty process, finally came into effect; and a second treaty was signed with the five Maa-nulth First Nations on the west coast of Vancouver Island...read more

Product Description: Contains information on the status of major multilateral instruments deposited with the UN Secretary-General as of 31 December 2008, covering a range of issues including human rights, disarmament, commodities, refugees, environment and the Law of the Sea.

Product Description: Updated for the second edition, this text traces the origins and development of treaty negotiations in British Columbia. Through an examination of native concerns, it analyzes conflicting viewpoints and suggests alternatives for achieving consensus.