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How does international law impact the behavior of states? This book designed for students in multiple disciplines offers a comprehensive, accessible introduction to the 'law of nations,' detailing the evolution of state practice in response to an ever-changing, diverse world. In this new edition of William Slomanson's foundational text, the new authors, Professors Slagter and Van Doorn, trace how states manage their sovereignty in myriad ways, working through treaties, international organizations, and international courts to secure their own as well as global interests. With special emphasis on five key areas-human rights, the use of force, human security and humanitarian intervention, environmental protection, and economic relations-the authors illustrate both the power and limits of international law to provide structure and predictability on a globalized planet. Real-world problem sets, annotated bibliographies, and a practical guide to studying international law make this a text that students and instructors alike will appreciate.

Economics is taught in some form in the secondary schools of nations throughout the world. The subject is rarely taught in elementary schools, and while economics courses are offered in universities, the majority of students end their formal education with secondary school. Thus, the best opportunity for the economic education of the youth of a nation occurs in secondary schools. This book examines economic education at this critical level of the educational system. The teaching of economics in secondary schools varies across countries. These differences occur because of history, the structure of education, and other national factors. At the same time, there are common elements in the economic education of many countries, especially in content coverage. This contrast between the common features and the uniqueness of economic education in secondary schools of major industrial nations exemplifies the international perspective presented in this book. The international perspective is developed in the six sections of the volume. The first section discusses why nations should include economics in school curricula, and presents a framework for teaching economics that should have global appeal. Dissension and consensus on economic issues among North American and European economists are examined in the second section. The third section surveys the U.S. research literature on precollege economic education and assesses the current state of economics instruction in U.S. schools. The economics curricula and educational practices in seven other nations -- the U.K., Canada, Japan, Germany, Austria, Korea, and Australia -- are described in the fourth and fifth sections. The fifth section also presents international comparisons of economic understanding based on national testing in six of those nations. The sixth and final section explores the role of economic education in centrally planned economies, and its effects on the transition to a market economy, using Russia, Bulgaria, and China as case studies

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- NOTE BY THE SERIES EDITOR -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PREFACE -- I. CREATING AND SITUATING INTERNATIONAL LAW -- 1. Custom, Authority and the Creation of International Law -- Introduction -- Custom as a Law-Creating Process -- Finnis's Account of Custom-Formation -- Concluding Observations: A Brief Interpretation of Finnis's Schema -- 2. Situating International Law in Municipal Legal Systems in Africa -- Introduction -- International Law and Municipal Law -- The Theoretical Issue -- English Common Law and Civil Law Approaches -- Constitutional Incorporation of International Law in Africa -- International Law and Constitutional Interpretation: A Southern African Perspective -- Conclusion -- II. PRE-INDEPENDENCE TREATY OBLIGATIONS AND THE POST-COLONIAL STATE -- 3. The Newly Emergent State and the Devolution of Pre-Independence Treaties -- Introduction -- Malawi: A Post-Colonial Case Study -- Colonial Treaty Obligations and Third Parties: Theory and Practice -- Concluding Observations: Devolution of Treaty obligations in the Post-Colonial Era -- 4. Succession to Treaties and International Fluvial Law in Africa: The Niger Treaties -- Introduction -- The Pre-Independence Position -- Revision and Abrogation of the General Act of Berlin in 1890 and 1919 -- The Devolution of the Pre-Independence Niger Treaties upon the new Riparian States -- The Colonial Position -- State Succession and the Devolution of the Convention of St. Germain -- The Convention of St. Germain as a Dispositive Treaty and the Source of an International Servitude -- Article 1 of the Act of Niamey (1963): Abrogation of the Convention of St. Germain -- Conclusion -- III. HUMAN RIGHTS -- 5. Contextualizing Democracy and Human Rights in Africa -- Introduction -- International Human Rights Law: A Historical Note.

In a report which he had submitted to one of the preparatory committees for the first International Conference of National Aid Societies for the Nursing of the Sick and Wounded in the Field (which meetings were the predecessors of the International Conferences of the Red Cross) at Paris in 1867, Huber-Saladin, one of the French government delegates, put forward the idea "of a jointly financed publication in Geneva, in the form of a journal, or a periodical bulletin to which every Central Committee would contribute news items". The International Committee, of which Gustave Moynier was president, adopted this idea and shortly afterwards, in its ninth circular of 21 September 1867, submitted it to the Central Committees which had been previously consulted and had given their approval.

Aboriginal peoples of Canada have never limited themselves to the national scène in their struggle to obtain the recognition of their collective rights and powers. Since 1974, this phenomenon has increased noticeably and the international activities of Aboriginal peoples can be seen as a major event in Canadian external affairs. However, Aboriginal peoples of Canada are not a homogenous group. Their participation in the international Systems or institutions is as varied as the traditions and the expectations of each aboriginal nation towards political action. Beyond a typology of the external relations of Aboriginal peoples, the approach used in this article offers new perspectives over the extent and the meaning of their international personality : without being a condition of aboriginal self-government, the participation in the international arena is certainly promoting the realization of this ideal.

Sport, Künste, Wissenschaft und Personenaustausch stellen zentrale - aber viel zu wenig beachtete - Aspekte der Nationalstaatlichkeit und der internationalen Politik dar. Erstmals wird in diesem Buch in einer »Theorie der Außenkulturpolitik« gezeigt, dass sich Staaten durch Kultur zugleich voneinander differenzieren wie auch in ein positives Verhältnis zueinander treten können - und sich gerade in dieser Widersprüchlichkeit reproduzieren.Auf der methodologischen Grundlage von Umberto Ecos Zeichentheorie verbindet Patrick Schreiner postklassische Ansätze der Nationalismusforschung mit poststrukturalistischen Ansätzen der Internationalen Beziehungen, um eine Theorie der Außenkulturpolitik zu entwickeln.

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Nous avons reçu le programme du Congrès international d'hygiène et de démographie, qui doit se tenir à Londres du 10 au 17 août 1891, sous le patronage de S. M. la reine et la présidence de S. A. R. le prince de Galles.La VIIIe section de ce congrès s'occupera spécialement de l'hygiène de la flotte et de l'armée. Elle sera présidée par S. E. Lord Wantage, président de la Croix-Rouge anglaise, et abordera plusieurs questions qui touchent, de très près à notre œuvre. On en jugera par la lecture de la partie du programme qui la concerne et que nous reproduisons in extenso.

1968 has been chosen International Year for Human Rights and the UN General Assembly has invited states and institutions to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Red Cross too is associated in this commemoration by publishing in the International Review the following article on Red Cross and Human Rights; this will be followed in other issues with contributions on the same theme.