International law, rights and politics: developments in Eastern Europe and the CIS

Rein Mullerson was Deputy Foreign Minister of Estonia during the country's independence struggles and is a distinguished professor of international relations. His book is concerned with the interplay of international law and politics in the changing international system.He analyses events in Eastern Europe and the former USSR to throw light on broad and controversial issues including non-use of force, non-interference in internal affairs, self-determination of peoples, minorities and nationalism in inter-ethnic conflicts and human rights in post-totalitarian societies. Controversial questions

The range of recent upheavals are used to show the interplay of international law and politics in the changing international system. The author is former Deputy Foreign Minister of Estonia and a distinguished professor.

Rein Mullerson was Deputy Foreign Minister of Estonia during the country's independence struggles. This work concerns the interplay of international law and politics in the changing international system. The text analyzes events in Eastern Europe and the former USSR to throw light on broad issues including non-use of force; non-interference in internal affairs; self-determination of peoples; minorities and nationalism in inter-ethnic conflicts; and human rights in post-totalitarian societies. Controversial questions of continuity and succession of states are also examined. The book demonstrates how recent developments influence the international system as a whole and how international law has to change in order to respond to new challenges

Rein Mullerson examines such issues as non-use of force, non-interference in internal affairs, self determination of peoples, protection of minorities and the role of nationalism in inter-ethnic conflicts, and human rights in post-totalitarian societies. Mullerson sets the discussion in the context of events in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and analyzes controversial issues of continuity and the succession and recognition of states. The book shows how these developments influence the international system as a whole and how international law has to change in order to respond to new