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"Am 1. Juli 2002 ist der Gründungsvertrag des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs in Kraft getreten. Der Gerichtshof in Den Haag wird das erste ständige internationale Strafgericht sein, vor dem sich Einzelpersonen wegen bestimmter 'schwerster Verbrechen von internationalem Belang' verantworten müssen. Im Einzelnen handelt es sich dabei um Völkermord, Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit sowie Kriegsverbrechen. Der Beitrag beleuchtet zunächst die Zuständigkeit des Strafgerichtshofs sowie die Entwicklung des internationalen Strafrechts, ferner die Opposition der USA gegen den Gerichtshof. Die Errichtung des Gerichtshofs wird als Indiz für eine stärkere Integration der internationalen Gemeinschaft gewertet, die das traditionelle Souveränitätsdogma überwindet und in die Richtung eines 'Weltinnenrechts' führt." (Autorenreferat)

International environmental law: an introductory overview / Phillipe Sands--International environmental law from Stockholm to Rio: back to the future? / Marc Pallemaerts--The Rio declaration: a new basis for international cooperation / Ileana Porras--Defending the global commons / Christopher Stone--Enforcing environmental security / Philippe Sands--Greening Bretton Woods / Jacob D. Werksman--Greening the EEC Treaty / Marina Wheeler--The GATT and the environment / James Cameron--Environmental law and policy in Antarctica / Leee Kimball--Radioactive waste dumping at sea / Remi Parmentier--The evolution of international whaling / Greg Rose and Saundra Crane--Technology-based approaches versus market-based approaches / Dan Dudek, Richard Stewart and Jonathan Wiener--The United Nations framework convention on climate change: a commentary / Daniel Bodansky--Implementing UNCED / S. Jacob Scherr and Jared E. Blumenfeld--International law and the protection of the environment during international armed conflict / Richard G. Tarasofsky--International environmental law in North America: beyond NAFTA / Alberto Sz(c)♭kely

Abstract
In some circles the idea of international constitutionalism, or international constitutional law, appears to provoke a considerable and perhaps unexpected degree of resistance, and indeed animosity. My goal on this occasion is to try to figure out why this attitude of scorn might exist, and in the process also to say something about the relationship between international law and international constitutionalism.

Much emphasis has been placed on the role that individualism, self-interest and reciprocity have in the formation and function of international legal rules. Rarely has attention been given to the presence of altruism in legal systems, let alone the international legal system. In a study that is the first of its kind in international legal scholarship, Altruism in International Law explores and analyses the emergence of altruistic legal relationships between states and people in other countries. The book also argues that the impulse for the emergence of these relationships is a cosmopolitan ideology, which co-exists with a persisting statist ideology, among the major actors in international law-making processes. Further still, the book reveals that individualistic legal norms are more often manifested as strict rules while altruistic legal norms find expression in flexible standards. This suggests that there is a connection between substance and form in international law.

Ob Welthandelsorganisation, Weltbank, die Vereinten Nationen oder die Europäische Union: Internationale Organisationen haben nicht nur Auswirkungen auf Staaten, sondern zunehmend auch auf die Gesellschaft. Dieses Buch zeigt, wie sich internationale Organisationen als Teil der Weltgesellschaft erforschen lassen, indem zwischen Weltsemantik, Innenwelt, Umweltbeziehung und Weltordnungsgenese unterschieden wird. Dazu geht es insbesondere auf die Dreiecksbeziehungen zwischen politischen Mitgliedern, Verwaltungsstäben und gesellschaftlicher Umwelt ein.

THIS ASSESSMENT OF MITTERAND'S FIRST TERM CONCENTRATES ON THE FIVE YEARS OF THE SOCIALIST MAJORITY AND ON THE GOVERNMENT'S INTERNATIONAL POLICIES. FOCUS IS ALSO ON THE INTERNAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS WHICH SET THE CONTEXT FOR ALL POLICY CHOICES. OVERALL, ONE OF MITTERAND'S MOST LASTING ACHIEVEMENTS IS HIS DEMONSTRATION THROUGH FIVE YEARS OF THE SOCIALIST LEGISLATIVE MAJORITY THAT THE LEFT CAN EXERCISE POLITICAL POWER IN A RESPONSIBLE MANNER.

Hitherto, the 'African part' of the history of international law has often been limited to the (critical engagement with) 'the acquisition of Africa' since the 1880s and questions of 'state succession' and international borders following independence starting in the 1950s. In this historical narrative, the dominance of colonialism is evident. It seems that 'Africa' as a narrative concept in international legal history remains tied to abstract contrasts such as 'foreign domination' versus 'independence', or 'exploitation' versus 'development'. However, if twenty-first century writings about 'international law in Africa' and its histories remain shaped by this perspective, historians may lose sight of issues, questions, or ideas formed in historical Africa that do not fit into this preconceived dichotomous matrix. After discussing methodological challenges, this article asks for other 'contacts', other arenas of 'internationality' and international law in Africa's pre-colonial past. These contacts reach back very far in history. Three arenas are mentioned: the Red Sea area and Ethiopian-Arab relations; the Indian Ocean rim; and finally, the case of nineteenth-century Ethiopia.

Theorising within the American 'discipline' of International Relations has been plagued by a rather severe intellectual crisis. Theorists have meant that they need to emulate the natural sciences of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in outlook and argumentative style. But this has destroyed much awareness for the 'nature' of modern international relations as a dynamically evolving historical process. This book seeks to overcome the vicissitudes of mainstream theorising by abandoning the discipline's scientism and by adopting a stance that is more in tune with the standards of modern social science.