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"The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law provides a comprehensive and original overview of one of the fundamental topics within international law. It contains substantive new essays by leading experts in the field, giving students, scholars, and practitioners a com…
Studying the principal negotiating processes and law-making tools by which international law is developed, this book looks at the UN, diplomatic conferences, codification bodies, NGOs, and courts in identifying the processes, participants and instruments used in the making of in…
Table of Contents 1. Introduction: the crisis in international law 2. Reasons for international law and organization 3. International law and organization as a system for transnational political linkage 4. The futurology of international law 5. Cyberspace 6. Human rights 7. Envi…
"The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single country, no matter how powerful. To manage the global economy, prevent runaway environmental destruction, rein-in nuclear proliferation, or confront other global challenges, we must cooperate.…
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According to traditional models of human rights, states are responsible for securing the rights of their citizens. But these models do not fit reality: States are often unwilling or unable to live up to their obligations, but if human rights are to be more than empty words, then…
"This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a normative and institutional structure dominated by hierarchies and power inequalities and the…
Case study of an emergency relief programme organised by international organizations (incl. Voluntary organizations, FAO, UNHCR, UNICEF, WHO) in response to the influx of rural area refugees from Uganda in Southern Sudan during the early months of 1982 - covers social characteri…