An Introduction To Contemporary International Law: A Policy-Oriented Perspective

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.

• | Author: Lung-chu Chen
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 29, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 641 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0190227990
• | ISBN-13: 9780190227999