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This book contains excerpts in extenso from leading cases in general international law, and seeks to provide a greater volume of case law than that currently available on the market. It contains no editorial commentary and no secondary literature, as these are widely available in other works. It can serve either as a principal text or as a supplement to other standard books. It is thoroughly up to date, including recent ICJ judgments on the Bosnia case, the Gavcíkovo-Nagymaros Project, the Advisory Opinion on Nuclear Weapons, and the Lockerbie case. It will be of inestimable value to all libraries of international law, large and small, institutional and private. No student or practitioner in the field should be without it

Contents are grouped under the headings: The international policeman in an armed world--lessons from the past; The internationalization of force in the future.

The discipline of International Relations and cognate fields of Comparative Politics and Development Studies have more or less successfully contained the study of Africa's condition within the limits of the dominant Western imagination, with grave consequences. Africa is seen and analyzed as a site of weak states and neopatrimonial rule. The continued dominance and ubiquity of such analytical vocabularies and their underlying methods rests on many forces, one of which is the reluctance to acknowledge that Africans can and do articulate their own analyses of their condition and to respect such analyses. This article seeks to remember some of the routinely forgotten international relations which structure Africa's contemporary condition, by turning to the work of Cameroonian film director Jean-Marie Teno. Teno's work, in particular Afrique Je Te Plumerai and Le Malentendu Colonial, is profoundly important for students of international relations. This article examines the content, form, and effect of the critique Teno elaborates in Afrique Je Te Plumerai.

Subject matter of private international law / Xiaohong Liu, Xin Cai -- Sources of law / Xin Cai -- History of private international law / Xin Cai -- Classification / Xin Cai -- Preliminary question / Xin Cai -- Dépeçage / Xin Cai -- Renvoi / Xin Cai -- Point of contact / Xin Cai -- Ascertainment of foreign law / Xin Cai -- Public order, mandatory rules and evasion of law / Xin Cai -- Jurisdiction in personam / Jianping Shi and Zijun Zhai -- Jurisdiction in shipping claims / Jianping Shi and Zijun Zhai -- Immunities from jurisdiction / Jianping Shi and Zijun Zhai -- Law of obligations / Qingkun Xu -- Law of property / Lin Jia, Qingxuan Wu, Zhengyi Zhang -- Jurisdiction and applicable law in matters of intellectual property in China / Yang Cao -- Family law / Zhengyi Zhang, Jingning Zhang -- Law of corporations and insolvency / Xiaolin Li -- Competition law / Maozhong Ding, Dan Wang -- Recognition / Zhengyi Zhang, Zhen Zhang -- Enforcement of judgments / Zhengyi Zhang -- Interregional judicial assistance / Jun Chen -- International commercial arbitration / Shuo Feng -- Investment treaty arbitration / Junrong Song, Min Han -- China's role in the work of international organisations / Zhengyi Zhang, Yannan Liu -- The belt and road initiative and Chinese private international law / Zhengyi Zhang -- The future of private international law / Guojian XU, Zhengyi Zhang.

Advances in Financial Economics, volume 18, will present research on corporate governance both in the US and globally. Papers will deal with the role played by boards of directors, internal organization design and governance mechanisms, franchise agreements, the effect of regulation and policy, the market for corporate control, and strategic alliances. The volume will aim at providing a deeper understanding of corporate governance practices, trends, innovations and challenges using international data.

The article investigates interaction and integration in Latin America, using nations as units. Four indices of international stratification are presented and compared, and intensity of interaction within different pairs of nations is analysed. Interaction is measured in terms of trade, airborne transport, participation in continental meetings, negotiations, and participation in World Wars. The consequences of interactive disequilibrium appear important in analysis of inter action. An equilibrated pair, with units of equal status, is characterized by mutual exchange on equal level of intensity, and mutual influence that flows within the pair. A disequilibrated pair may be characterized by high intensity of interaction, but the exchange is not mutual, and there is no flow of influence. Equilibrated units influence each other; while in a disequilibrated pair one unit dominates, not influences, the other. The medium status units appear most important in international integration; such units foresee mobility in the international system, and imagine that international integration may make it possible to challenge top status units in the system. These and other findings are compared with findings in small group research, which are proved fruitful in the interpretations of our findings. We discover that Latin American nations do not imitate and are not responsive towards the United States because of lack of mobility within the inter-American system. Since the United States behaves as a 'superdog' in the system, thus dominating Latin American nations, the Latin American nations become followers of the United States and eager participants in inter-American meetings. It is our contention, however, that the United States' image in Latin America disappears when United States dominance ceases, because this image is not internalised in the local culture. One important policy implication emerges from our analysis: if a nation wants to influence another, its policy should aim at supporting the other nation in its attempts to gain the same status in the system as that of the 'would-be' influencer.

This study examines the role of international courts and tribunals (ICTs) as important agents for the peaceful settlement of international disputes through the instrumentality of law. The rapid upswing in the number of specialised international courts and tribunals (in areas such as trade, human rights, law of the sea, criminal justice and environment) can be perceived as an attempt by sovereign States to maintain the viability of ICTs in light of perplexity in international relations, growing recognition of peaceful co-existence, quest for institutionalised cooperation and emergence of some of the "common concerns of humankind", as well as the "duty to cooperate". The article has sought to make sense of the emergence of ICTs as the "New Environmental Sentinels" and what it portends for our common future. Do we need a specialised international environmental court?