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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811275903321

Autore

Chen Lung-chu

Titolo

An introduction to contemporary international law : a policy-oriented perspective / / Lung-chu Chen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015]

2015

ISBN

0-19-022801-6

0-19-022800-8

Edizione

[Third edition.]

Descrizione fisica

xxix, 641p

Disciplina

341

Soggetti

International law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

International law in a policy-oriented perspective -- Nation-states -- International governmental organizations -- Nongovernmental organizations and associations -- The individual -- Minimum order and optimum order -- Establishment of and access to arenas of authority -- Control over territory -- Control and use of the sea -- Control and use of other resources -- Control of people: nationality and movement -- Protection of people: from alien rights to human rights -- Vertical allocation of authority -- Horizontal allocation of authority -- The diplomatic instrument -- International agreements -- The ideological instrument -- The economic instrument -- The military instrument -- The intelligence function -- The promoting function -- The prescribing (lawmaking) function -- The invoking function -- The applying function -- The terminating function -- The appraising function -- Succession of states -- Responsibility of states -- Individual criminal responsibility -- Toward a world community of human dignity.