1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910494587803321

Autore

Nauta David <1976->

Titolo

The international responsibility of NATO and its personnel during military operations / / by David Nauta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill Nijhoff, , 2018

ISBN

90-04-35464-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 194 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Legal aspects of international organizations ; ; v. 58

Disciplina

341.6/3

Soggetti

Tort liability of international agencies

Peacekeeping forces

War damage compensation - Law and legislation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2016).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 2: Three Illustrative Cases – Facts and Questions -- Chapter 3: Overview of the Key Moments in the Development of nato -- Chapter 4: Current Institutional Framework of nato and nato’s Decision Making Process -- Chapter 5: The International Legal Personality of nato -- Chapter 8: Binding International Obligations Relevant to nato’s Operations -- Chapter 7: Attribution of Wrongful Acts to nato -- Chapter 8: Conclusions and Recommendations.

Sommario/riassunto

In 1999, the Alliance mistakenly bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. Around the same period, allegations were made regarding its involvement in human trafficking and forced prostitution in Bosnia-Herzegovina. A decade later, NATO airplanes hit a fuel truck causing significant civilian casualties in Kunduz, Afghanistan. After more than 60 years of existence and a track-record of more than 30 missions performed worldwide, it is surprising that there is still uncertainty on the scope and content of NATO’s responsibility for wrongful conduct during its military operations. This timely book deals with the international responsibility of NATO during military operations. It examines, the status of the Alliance, the existence of international obligations and conditions of attribution of conduct in NATO.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910146778903321

Titolo

2005 4th International Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : I E E E, 2005

ISBN

9781509097708

1509097708

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

025.04

Soggetti

Information networks

Multisensor data fusion

Sensor networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

We consider a network of distributed sensors, where each sensor takes a linear measurement of some unknown parameters, corrupted by independent Gaussian noises. We propose a simple distributed iterative scheme, based on distributed average consensus in the network, to compute the maximum-likelihood estimate of the parameters. This scheme doesn't involve explicit point-to-point message passing or routing; instead, it diffuses information across the network by updating each node's data with a weighted average of its neighbors' data (they maintain the same data structure). At each step, every node can compute a local weighted least-squares estimate, which converges to the global maximum-likelihood solution. This scheme is robust to unreliable communication links. We show that it works in a network with dynamically changing topology, provided that the infinitely occurring communication graphs are jointly connected.