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The law that regulates armed conflicts is one of the oldest branches of international law, and yet continues to be one of the most dynamic areas of law today. This book provides an accessible, scholarly, and up-to-date examination of international humanitarian law, offering a comprehensive and logical discussion and analysis of the law. The book contains detailed examples, extracts from relevant cases, useful discussion questions, and a recommended reading list for every chapter. Emerging trends in theory and practice of international humanitarian law are also explored, allowing for readers to build on their knowledge, and grapple with some of the biggest challenges facing the law of armed conflict in the twenty-first century. This second edition offers new sections on issues like detention in non-international armed conflict, characterisation of non-international armed conflicts, expanded chapters on occupation and the protection of civilians, means and methods of warfare, and implementation, enforcement and accountability.

Der Autor gibt zunächst einen Überblick über handlungstheoretische Definitionen von Macht, vor allem von Max Weber, wonach Macht als "jede Chance, innerhalb einer sozialen Beziehung den eigenen Willen auch gegen Widerstreben durchzusetzen, gleichviel worauf diese Chance beruht", zu verstehen ist. Er skizziert anschließend die historische Genese und politische Philosophie von Macht, um danach die Rolle von Macht in den internationalen Beziehungen zu erörtern, die sich von der Macht in innergesellschaftlichen oder innerstaatlichen Zusammenhängen unterscheidet. Denn internationale Beziehungen werden durch das realistische Verständnis von Machtpolitik einzelner Mächte gegeneinander als Ausdruck potentieller Gewalt und Unsicherheit in einer anarchischen Staatenwelt wahrgenommen, während sich die machtpolitische Analyse im innerstaatlichen Bereich vor allem auf die Legitimität von Herrschaft und das pluralistische Ringen um die politische Macht konzentriert. Macht bedeutet dem Autor zufolge jedoch nicht nur Krise und Konfrontation im internationalen System, sondern auch Ordnung und Verantwortungsbewusstsein. Erst die Bindung machtpolitischer Interessen an Vernunft und Moral sowie die Berücksichtigung der Interessen anderer Staaten eröffnet rationale Handlungsspielräume, die der Struktur der internationalen Politik Berechenbarkeit, Transparenz und vor allem Ordnungscharakter verleihen. (ICI2)

Writing in 1968 on the "relevance of international law," Richard Falk described his efforts as part of the larger endeavor of "liberating the discipline of international law from a sense of its own futility." In 1992 that task appears to have been accomplished. International legal rules, procedures and organizations are more visible and arguably more effective than at any time since 1945. If the United Nations cannot accomplish everything, it once again represents a significant repository of hopes for a better world. And even as its current failures are tabulated, from Yugoslavia to the early weeks and then months of the Somali famine, the almost-universal response is to find ways to strengthen it. The resurgence of rules and procedures in the service of an organized international order is the legacy of all wars, hot or cold.

Originally published in 1987, Refugees in International Politics explores the nature of forced migration. It sets out systematically the factors that set refugees in motion and explains how and why a flexible network of organizations copes with the inescapable results of their presence. It suggests measures to reduce both the human suffering involved in forced migration and the disturbing effects of international relations.

Das internationale Investitionsrecht befindet sich in einer Umbruchsphase. Die seit geraumer Zeit existierende Kritik an der traditionellen Ausgestaltung zwischenstaatlicher Investitionsabkommen hat Eingang in die neuere Vertragspraxis gefunden. Moderne Investitionsabkommen sind präziser formuliert, enthalten häufiger Ausnahmetatbestände und sollen so staatliche Regulierungsspielräume stärker berücksichtigen. Diese vielfach beschworene Reform des Investitionsrechts steht jedoch weiterhin vor erheblichen rechtlichen Herausforderungen. Denn eine der Besonderheiten der Rechtsmaterie ist ihre mangelnde Harmonisierung und die Wechselwirkungen, die zwischen der großen Zahl neuer und älterer Investitionsabkommen entstehen können. Die so hervorgerufenen normativen Spannungsverhältnisse führen zu einer Reihe neuer Rechtsfragen, denen sich Joscha Müller in seiner Untersuchung eingehend widmet.

This edited collection expands our understanding of the theoretical and critical scope of international law by considering the discipline through the lens of objects. The relevance of each object for the development, impact, status, and authority of international law is examined, shedding new light on the field and providing a great teaching tool.

Aktuelle BFH-Rechtsprechung; Aktuelle Steuerrechtsentwicklungen im Ausland – Überblick und Auswirkungen auf deutsche Unternehmen; Hybrids: alle Schotten dicht?; Hinzurechnungsbesteuerung – Bestandsaufnahme und Reformbedarf; Streitbeilegung bei grenzüberschreitender Gewinnabgrenzung

This forum opens a debate that is long overdue: for far too long, the fields of international political sociology (IPS) and international political economy (IPE) have been standing apart. Discussions take place in different conference sections, in different networks that publish in different journals. Yet, this divide is surprising given that the two fields share similar trajectories, theoretical concerns, problématiques, and conceptual challenges. This forum starts exploring this shared terrain: we believe that there is no a priori reason to separate the sociocultural, the political and the economic when we aim at making sense of the world in any meaningful way. We propose that bridging the IPE-IPS divide has tremendous potential for the development of a socio-political economy analysis that, we believe, has two benefits. First, it allows for the opening of new empirical terrains or deepening and widening existing ones. Second, bringing IPE/S back together creates reflexive spaces for more holistic, embodied and contextualised conceptual innovation. The contributors to this forum show each in their own way such empirical and conceptual added value of moving beyond the IPE and IPS divide in order to develop what we call here a socio-political economy of the globe. They focus on various issues, such as the transformation of capitalism from an oil- to a data-dependent accumulation regime with the rising of the so-called 'digital age' (Chenou); the profound social, economic and political transformation triggered by urbanisation in the development world (Elias, Rethel and Tilley); emerging global risks and the neglected role of the insurance industry (Lobo-Guerrero); regional development-security nexuses (Lopez Lucia); and business power in climate change diplomacy (Moussu).

Shortly after the Second World War the community of States, still shocked by the explosion of violence that had torn the world apart for more than five years, ratified an updated version of the Geneva Conventions in the hope of acquiring a sound legal instrument which would preserve human dignity even in times of war. They undertook to respect the fundamental rights of the individual in armed conflicts, whether international or otherwise, and to limit the use of force to what was strictly necessary to place an enemy hors de combat. Their resolve found confirmation in the two Additional Protocols of 1977.