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Strategic litigation and corporate complicity in crimes under international criminal law: a TWAIL analysis
"This book provides a comprehensive account of how non-state actors rely on international criminal law as a tool in the service of progressive political causes. The argument that international criminal law and its institutions serve as an instrument in the hands of a few powerful states, and that its practice is characterized by double standards and selectivity, has received considerable attention. This book, however, focuses on a practice that is informed by this argument. Its focus is on an alternative practice within international criminal law, where non-state actors navigate what critical scholars call a structurally biased legal system, in order to achieve long-term political objectives. Innovatively, the book combines the concerns expressed by Third World Approaches to International Law with strategic litigation that focuses on the accountability of corporations for their complicity in crimes under international law. Analysing this litigation, the book demonstrates that, while it is crucial to highlight the blind spots of the international criminal legal framework, it is also important to take into account the practice of non-state actors engaged in leveraging its emancipatory potential. This original analysis of the implementation and legitimacy of international criminal law will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and activists working in relevant areas of law, politics, criminology and international relations."--
The Islamic world and the West: an introduction to political cultures and international relations
In: Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia, v. 71
This anthology is an introduction to political cultures in the Islamic world and into relations between the West and Islam. It outlines similarities and differences in the understanding, perception and communication of politico-ideological issues like modernity democracy and human rights.
Territories Under the Mandates Régime of the League of Nations: Concealed Annexation or True International Administration? (Les Territoires Sous Mandat de la Societe des Nations: Colonialisme Deguise ou Administration Internationale?)
In: L'ACTIVITÉ ET L'ESPACE, DROIT DU SPORT ET AMÉNAGEMENT DU TERRITOIRE, MÉLANGES EN L'HONNEUR DE PIERMARCO ZEN-RUFFINEN, pp. 491-512, P. Mahon, M.S. Nguyen, eds., Helbing & Lichtenhan, Basel, 2011
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Les Arrets Kadi et Al Barakaat International Foundation: Reaffirmation par la cour de justice de l'autonomie de l'ordre juridique communautaire vis-a-vis du droit international -- sous la direction du cedin
In: Revue du marché commun et de l'Union Européenne, Heft 524
ISSN: 0035-2616
On Acting and Knowing: How Pragmatism Can Advance International Relations Research and Methodology
In: International organization, Band 63, Heft 4, S. 701-731
ISSN: 1531-5088
AbstractThis article moves from deconstruction to reconstruction in research methodology. It proposes pragmatism as a way to escape from epistemological deadlock. We first show that social scientists are mistaken in their hope to obtain warranted knowledge through traditional scientific methods. We then show that pragmatism has grown from tacit commonsense to an explicit item on the agenda of the international relations discipline. We suggest that a coherent pragmatic approach consists of two elements: the recognition of knowledge generation as a social and discursive activity, and the orientation of research toward the generation of useful knowledge. To offer a concrete example of what pragmatic methodology can look like, we propose the research strategy of abduction. We assess various forms of research design to further elucidate how pragmatic research works in practice.
International Responsibility for colonial peoples: the United Nations and chapter 11 of the Charter
In: International conciliation 458
Freshwater as a global commons: international governance and the role of Germany
Water is essential for all life on earth and is a key prerequisite for attaining many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Many countries, however, suffer from physical water scarcity, a lack of access to a safe water supply and sanitation, water pollution or hydrological extremes (droughts and floods) due to climate change. The generality and severity of water problems lead many to speak of a global water crisis. While this crisis mostly manifests at the local or in some cases transboundary level, two global issues are often overlooked. First, global trends such as climate change and the spread of water-intensive consumption and trade patterns are key triggers that cannot be addressed at the local level alone. Second, the aggregation of local or regional water problems may add up to a universal threat to sustainable development. In the face of current challenges, (fresh) water should be conceptualised as a global common good, and global water governance should contribute to improving its protection. This study reveals that the current global water governance architecture is a highly fragmented and incoherent regime consisting of numerous norms, paradigms and actors, each covering single aspects of global water governance. Given the diversity of issues, a "classical" formation of one comprehensive international water regime in the form of a framework convention, and equipped with a specific global governance institution (such as for climate stability, biological diversity or the prevention of desertification) has so far not emerged. The authors suggest a global water governance regime that could evolve from the improved interplay of the existing elements of global water governance (i.e. norms, targets, paradigms and actors). This could be complemented by two innovations at UN level: installing an Intergovernmental Body on Water allowing for mandated decisions on water in the UN system, and a Scientific and Practice Panel on Water improving the science-policy interface. Such an approach that combines global norms and joint guidelines to be adapted to local contexts and needs may be able to increase urgently needed political support for governing water as a global commons, beyond the nation-state interests and their perception of water resources as sovereign goods.
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VIIIe assemblée générale du Conseil des organisations internationales des sciences médicales (Genève, 9–11 septembre 1970), Revue internationale des Services de Santé des Armées de terre, de mer et de l'air. Liège1971, no 4
In: Revue internationale de la Croix-Rouge: débat humanitaire, droit, politiques, action = International Review of the Red Cross, Band 53, Heft 632, S. 514-515
ISSN: 1607-5889
Engaging Global Civil Society: Shifting Normative Frameworks, Moral Diplomacy, & the Future of International Relations
The following exposition outlines a synthesized account of diplomatic relations in the 21st century, highlighting the crucial importance of engaging the Global Civil Society (NGOs and civil society) in an age of global communication, and stressing the importance of the development of a new system of diplomacy, drawing upon the best elements of existent theories. A comparative qualitative framework of analysis—cross-referencing historical cases, political psychology, as well as the writings of diplomatic practitioners—synthesizes the most accurate elements of two contemporary theories of international relations: Lyn Boyd-Judson's Strategic Moral Diplomacy, and Mervyn Frost's Constitutive Theory of International Relations. The paper concludes with the application of this new variant of Strategic Moral Diplomacy to contemporary political developments and crises, including United States and Pakistani negotiations with Taliban militants over peaceful disengagement, U.S.-Russian negotiations over nuclear non-proliferation, the development of international legal norms for cyber-security, and U.S. and E.U. negotiations with Russia over the Ukraine crisis.
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Conflict potentials in monetary unions: [emerged from papers presented at the conference "Conflict Potentials in Monetary Unions", held jointly at Castle Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel and the Evangelische Akademie Hofgeismar in Germany in 2001, and at session no. 39, XIII Economic History Congress in Buenos ...
In: Beiträge zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte 108