The Chemical Weapons Convention [[electronic resource] ] : implementation, challenges and opportunities / / edited by Ramesh Thakur and Ere Haru

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451525503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tokyo ; ; New York, : United Nations University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-280-91573-0; 9786610915736; 1-4294-4166-6; 92-808-7074-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ThakurRamesh Chandra <1948->; HaruEre
• Disciplina: 341.7/35
• Soggetti: Chemical arms control; Chemical arms control - Verification; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Inspired by the symposium 'Towards the elimination of chemical weapons-- the roles of the OPCW and Japan', sponsored jointly by the United Nations University and the Government of Japan and held on 1 October 2003 at the UNU in Tokyo"--P. [ii].
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Chemical Weapons Convention; Contents; Foreword; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Chemical weapons and the challenge of weapons of mass destruction; 2 The Chemical Weapons Convention -- multilateral instrument with a future; 3 The First Review Conference of the Chemical Weapons Convention: A drafter's perspective; 4 The challenge inspection system of the Chemical Weapons Convention: Problems and prospects; 5 Implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention: A comparative case study of the legislation of Australia and France; 6 Chemical weapons destruction and public involvement; 7 Standing the test of time -- efforts to achieve universality of the CWC8 Conclusion: Seize the moment; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The most complex and comprehensive disarmament treaty ever to be adopted, the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is intended to ; provide robust assurance that chemical weapons will not be developed, produced, stockpiled, used or transferred. To implement and enforce the CWC and verify the ongoing elimination of declared chemical weapons production capacity and stockpiles, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) inspects military and industrial sites in dozens of countries. OPCW membership now embraces over 95 per cent of the world's population and 98 per cent of the relev

War powers [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of constitutional authority / / Mariah Zeisberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779558503321
• Autore: Zeisberg Mariah Ananda <1977->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 1-299-47631-7; 1-4008-4677-3
• Edizione: [Core Textbook]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 352.23/50973
• Soggetti: War and emergency powers - United States - History; Separation of powers - United States - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Who Has Authority to Take the Country to War? -- Chapter 2. Presidential Discretion and the Path to War -- Chapter 3. "Uniting Our Voice at the Water's Edge" -- Chapter 4. Defensive War -- Chapter 5. Legislative Investigations as War Power -- Chapter 6. The Politics of Constitutional Authority -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war? War Powers argues that the Constitution doesn't offer a single legal answer to that question. But its structure and values indicate a vision of a well-; functioning constitutional politics, one that enables the branches of government themselves to generate good answers to this question for the circumstances of their own times. Mariah Zeisberg shows that what matters is not that the branches enact the same constitutional settlement for all conditions, but instead how well they bring their distinctive governing capacities to bear on their interpretive work in context. Because the branches legitimately approach constitutional questions in different ways, interpretive conflicts between them can sometimes indicate a successful rather than deficient interpretive politics. Zeisberg argues for a set of distinctive constitutional standards for evaluating the branches and their relationship to one another, and she demonstrates how observers and officials can use those standards to evaluate the branches' constitutional politics. With cases ranging from the Mexican War and World War II to the Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Iran-Contra scandal, War Powers reinterprets central controversies of war powers scholarship and advances a new way of evaluating the constitutional behavior of officials outside of the judiciary.