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The Chernobyl disaster, the Amoco Cadiz oil spill and the Colorado River dispute are examples of an activity conducted by one state which has serious adverse effects in the territory of another, or in global common areas. This book details the international rules and compensation procedures and is intended for use by governmental officials, international lawyers and jurists. It discusses existing laws on international liability and considers the underlying legal issues that require further development. It is one of the few books on the subject written from the perspective of a developing country with rapid economic and social development

This essay develops a theoretical framework for understanding the connection between technological transformations & change in the international system & puts the information revolution in its proper context -- as another in a line of technology-system transformations. The analysis proceeds in two steps: first I conceptualize technology as politics. Technology is inherently political in at least two ways: the construction of technologies is subject to political contestation & technology can be understood as a certain kind of practical knowledge, embedded in material artifacts & in the institutions built to manage them. The second step draws on Buzan & Little's idea of interaction capacity to conceptualize technology as a component of the international political system. This two-step approach draws our attention to the national & transnational institutions that develop new technologies & to the international systemic dimension of certain sociotechnical systems. In the end, this approach provides a framework for understanding technological change, including the information revolution, in an international political context. In particular, it draws attention to political debate over the shape & content of a global information infrastructure. Adapted from the source document.

Conflict and crisis: concepts and overview findings on earthquakes I -- Protracted conflict-crisis model and findings on earthquakes II -- Crisis escalation to war: concepts, model, and findings on earthquakes III -- Crisis severity and impact: concepts and model -- Crisis intensity and fallout: findings on earthquakes IV -- Structure and stability: concepts and model -- Findings on the polarity-stability nexus -- Ethiopian (Abyssinian) War 1934-36, multipolarity, Africa -- Berlin Blockade 1948-49, bipolarity, Europe -- Bangladesh 1971, bipolycentrism, Asia -- Gulf War I 1990-91, unipolycentrism, Middle East -- Coping/crisis management: findings on earthquakes V -- What have we learned?

Introduction -- Origins of complicity: domestic law intake -- The evolution of complicity as a construction for dealing with collective criminality -- Complicity in the jurisprudence of the ad hoc tribunals and hybrid courts -- Complicity and the hierarchy of the participation modes at the icc -- Complicity in international criminal law and law of state responsibility : comparative analysis -- Correlation between complicity and sentencing -- Conclusion : the place of complicity in international criminal law

Explores control of international financial flows, impact of free capital flow on crises, new capital movements regulation, the Tobin tax proposal on currency transactions, challenges of globalized capital markets for developing countries, Al-Qaeda financing sources, and strategies to detect financing sources of Islamic terrorist organizations; 4 articles. Summaries in English p. 236-7.