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This is the eighteenth volume of the Hague Yearbook of International Law , which succeeds the Yearbook of the Association of Attenders and Alumni of the Hague Academy of International Law . The title Hague Yearbook of International Law reflects the close ties which have always existed between the AAA and the City of The Hague with its international law institutions, and indicates the Editor's intention to devote attention to developments taking place in those international law institutions, viz. the International Court of Justice the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, and the Hague Conference on Private International Law. This volume contains in-depth articles on these developments and summaries of (aspects of) decisions rendered by the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia since 1991, the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the Hague Peace Conference on Private International Law

This is the fifteenth volume of the Hague Yearbook of International Law , which succeeds the Yearbook of the Association of Attenders and Alumni of the Hague Academy of International Law . The title Hague Yearbook of International Law reflects the close ties which have always existed between the AAA and the City of The Hague with its international law institutions, and indicates the Editor's intention to devote attention to developments taking place in those international law institutions, viz. the International Court of Justice the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, and the Hague Conference on Private International Law. This volume contains in-depth articles on these developments (in English and French) and summaries of (aspects of) decisions rendered by the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia since 1991, the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the Hague Peace Conference on Private International Law

"Die Demokratie gilt mittlerweile weithin als die beste Staatsform. Aber ist sie auch zukunftsfähig? Ist sie zukunftsfähig im Sinne einer Politik, die, über die Augenblicksinteressen weit hinausgreifend, Vorsorge für langfristiges, nachhaltiges Gedeihen des Gemeinwesens treffen kann und den nachfolgenden Generationen nicht mehr Probleme hinterlässt, als sie von ihren Vorgängern geerbt hat? Darüber streiten die Gelehrten. Zwei grundverschiedene Überzeugungen prallen in diesem Streit aufeinander. Einer Sichtweise zufolge bedient die Demokratie vorrangig die Interessen der Gegenwart und stellt Zukunftsfragen hintan. Die Gegenmeinung bescheinigt zumindest einem Teil der Demokratien, er könnte zukunftstauglich sein. Vom Für und Wider dieser Debatte handelt der erste Teil meines Beitrags. Anschließend wird ein Vorschlag unterbreitet, die Zukunftsfähigkeit genauer zu erfassen, und zwar aus der Perspektive des internationalen Vergleichs und unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Fragen der politischen Steuerung. Der hierzu durchgeführte Pretest weist nach, dass die Zukunftsfähigkeit von Land zu Land sehr unterschiedlich ist und dass zwei Wege zu ihr fuhren - einer durch Demokratien mit liberaler Marktwirtschaft, ein zweiter über Demokratien mit koordinierter Marktökonomie. Deutschland ist dabei bislang noch im oberen Mittelfeld platziert, allerdings mit absteigender Tendenz." (Textauszug)

Population relativities play little part in the international system. A nation's economic and military power is influenced by population size, but as one factor among many. Formal relations among states exclude population from consideration by the principle of sovereign equality. Three sources of possible change in this situation are explored, in which states would be "population-weighted" to a greater degree than before. Convergence of productivity levels around the world, expected by many, would bring the economic and population rankings of states more into line. Such convergence is occurring, but selectively and for the most part quite slowly. Anticipation of its effect, however, influences the international order well in advance. A second source of change is the necessity to allocate among states the use of global commons, particularly the atmosphere as a sink for greenhouse gases. Acceptable remedies for this and perhaps other global threats are likely to involve at least in part a per capita allocation. And third, population weights are implicitly more prominent in futures in which states are less important-envisaged in scenarios of global civil society.

International migration figures prominently on the agenda of the United Nations. Solid migration data are crucial for supporting this global debate. This article describes the international migration data sets produced by the Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations. The Population Division's Migration Section produces migrant stock estimates for the world's countries by sex and, more recently, by age. The Section also produces a database containing annual data on inflows, outflows, and net flows of international migrants by country of origin for major destination countries. The Section maintains the Global Migration Database, containing the world's most complete set of empirical statistics on the international migrant stock by country of birth, citizenship, sex, and age for more than 200 countries and territories for recent decades. The data and associated publications are available from the Migration Section's Web site at http://www.unmigration.org .

On the occasion of the Executive Committee meeting of the League of Red Cross Societies, the representatives of these Societies were the guests of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which had arranged an information session on its recent activities. The President, Mr. Samuel A. Gonard, first of all described the efforts which the ICRC had made and was still making in Vietnam to obtain fuller application of the Geneva Conventions and also to establish contact with all parties to the conflict with a possible view to easing tension and leading to measures favourable to a halt or at least an abatement of hostilities.