This book addresses the disparity between positive non-treaty law and its scholarly assessment in the area of moral concepts, understood as altruistic as opposed to reciprocal legal obligations. It shows how scholars are generously willing to assert the existence of a rule of in…
Poor even by the standards of West Africa and landlocked at the edge of the Sahel, Burkina Faso - the "Land of Men of Dignity"--Has been plagued by political instability since independence from France in 1960. The country has suffered five military coups, the last of which cost …
Dit proefschrift benadert het diplomatiek onderhandelingsproces van verschillende kanten en tracht daarmee aan de hand van gevalstudies in verleden en heden de essentie en de evolutie van het proces beter in beeld te krijgen. Een goed begrip daarvan zal, zo wordt gehoopt, bijdr…
Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Political Theology develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made Carl Schmitt one of the most significant and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century…
Discusses the spate of wall-building by countries around the world and considers the reasons why walls are being built in an increasingly globalized world in which threats to security come from sources that cannot be contained by brick and barbed wire.
The way the sovereign state is taken for granted in political theory prevents an explanation of historical and contemporary organizations and phenomena different from this ideal type. Peter Halden bypasses the state and the problems it causes by constructing an understanding of …
As a result of many states reshaping their foreign policies in response to what is termed the terrorist threat, this title is a guide to understanding the ethnonational forces that undergird much of the terrorist activity.
"How do emerging states obtain international recognition and secure membership of international organisations in contemporary world politics? This book provides...[a] study of Kosovo's diplomatic approach to becoming a sovereign state by obtaining international recognition and s…
If you were to examine an 1816 map of the world, you would discover that half the countries represented there no longer exist. Yet since 1945, the disappearance of individual states from the world stage has become rare. State Death is the first book to systematically examine the…