1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455967703321

Autore

Franck Thomas M.

Titolo

Recourse to force : state action against threats and armed attacks / / Thomas M. Franck [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-107-12614-2

0-521-10420-3

0-511-15795-9

0-511-49436-X

0-511-05463-7

0-511-30903-1

0-511-17705-4

1-280-43075-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 205 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Hersch Lauterpacht memorial lectures ; ; 15

Disciplina

341.5/8

Soggetti

Self-defense (International law)

Intervention (International law)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The UN's capacity for adapting to radical changes of circumstance -- Use of force by the United Nations -- The original parameters of self-defence -- Self-defence against state-sponsored terrorists and infiltrators -- Self-defence against ideological subversion -- Self-defence against attacks on citizens abroad -- Anticipatory self-defence -- Countermeasures and self-help -- The 'purely humanitarian' intervention -- What, eat the cabin boy? Uses of force that are illegal but justifiable.

Sommario/riassunto

The nations that drafted the UN Charter in 1945 clearly were more concerned about peace than about justice. As a result, the Charter prohibits all use of force by states except in the event of an armed attack or when authorised by the Security Council. This arrangement has only very imperfectly withstood the test of time and changing world conditions. In requiring states not to use force in self-defence until



after they had become the object of an actual armed attack, the Charter failed to address a growing phenomenon of clandestine subversion and of instantaneous nuclear threats. Fortunately although the Charter is very hard to amend, the drafters did agree that it should be interpreted flexibly by the United Nations' principal political institutions. In this way the norms governing use of force in international affairs have been adapted to meet changing circumstances and new challenges. The book also relates these changes in law and practice to changing public values pertaining to the balance between maintaining peace and promoting justice.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814277203321

Autore

Stockinger Peter

Titolo

Audiovisual archives : digital text and discourse analysis / / Peter Stockinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : ISTE Ltd.

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012

ISBN

9781118561980

1118561988

9781118614099

1118614097

9781299315105

1299315100

9781118614174

1118614178

Edizione

[First edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations

Collana

ISTE

Classificazione

TEC041000

Disciplina

025.3/47

Soggetti

Audio-visual archives

Information storage and retrieval systems - Audio-visual materials

Discourse analysis

Corpora (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The practical, technical and theoretical context -- pt. 2. Tasks in analyzing an audiovisual corpus -- pt. 3. Procedures of description -- pt. 4. The ASW system of metalinguistic resources.

Sommario/riassunto

Today, audiovisual archives and libraries have become very popular especially in the field of collecting, preserving and transmitting cultural heritage. However, the data in these archives or libraries - videos, images, soundtracks, etc. - constitute as such only potential cognitive resources for a given public (or "target community"). One of the most crucial issues of digital audiovisual libraries is indeed to enable users to actively appropriate audiovisual resources for their own concern (in research, education or any other professional or non-professional context). This means, an adapta