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Now in its third edition, International Law: Cases and Materials with Australian Perspectives remains an authoritative textbook on international law for Australian students. With a strong focus on Australian practice and interpretation, the text examines how international law is developed, implemented and interpreted within the international community and considers new and developing approaches within this field. This edition has been comprehensively updated to address recent developments in international law. The selection of cases and materials provides a thorough coverage of core areas and addresses a range of contemporary challenges, including climate change, human rights, nuclear proliferation and the South China Sea. A new chapter on international trade law reflects the growing importance of this body of law in Australian practice. Guiding commentary provides a rigorous analysis of key principles. Written by a team of experts with substantial experience in this field, International Law is an essential resource for students.

The rule of law is widely seen as the cornerstone of any effective polity and increasingly a vital component of the international political system. If the international rule of law were to be strengthened, it would greatly contribute to trade, security, human rights and global cooperation in a range of fields. Yet, in many areas the rule of law seems almost absent in international affairs. This book explores the institutions that support the effectiveness of the rule of law domestically. It focuses on the extent to which similar institutions already exist at international level and analyses the.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Preliminary Questions -- What Does "Complexity" Mean? -- Varieties of Complexity -- Complexity in Linguistics -- Background: Computational Grammars and Generativity -- Critique of the Generativist Reason: Thom and Petitot's Semiophysics -- Limited Recursion and Naturalization of the Meaning -- Rethinking the Generativity of Languages from the Use -- Oscillations and Gaps -- Syntax in Semiophysics -- Significant Intersections: Grammars and Cognitive Semantics -- Toward a «complex» Science of the Natural Language: the Semiophysics' Inheritance -- Problems Inspired by a Complex Science of the Natural Language -- Gestalt Compositionality -- Lexical Polysemy and Semiogenesis -- Local Models and Qualitative Mathematics of the Continuous -- Conclusion -- Complexity and Linguistic Theory: Epistemological Questions -- 1 The Game of Complexity and Linguistic Theorization -- 1.1 Introduction: An Age-Old Debate -- 1.2 The Nomothetic Approach: Reduction to Simplicity and Determinant Laws -- 1.3 Complexity, Replayed in the Models of Complex Systems -- 1.4 Emergence: Between Determinant Judgment and Reflective Judgment -- 1.5 The Middle Path of Complex Systems: Assessment for Semiolinguistics -- 1.6 What Do the Facts Tell Us? a Few Remarks -- 1.7 Concerning a Few Linguistic Theories -- 1.8 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Continuity in the Interactions Between Linguistic Units -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Topological and Dynamic Models in Linguistics: From "Autopoiesis" to the Notion of "Instruction" -- 2.2.1 Short Review of Some Models: Autopoietic, Gestaltist, Morphogenetic -- 2.2.2 The Articulation Between Global and Local Dimensions -- 2.2.3 Instruction: A Dynamical and Topological Notion -- 2.3 Continuity, Instruction and the Online Processing of Meaning -- 2.3.1 Two Fundamental Hypotheses Concerning Meaning.

AN ATTEMPT HAS BEEN MADE HERE TO TOUCH ON SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEMS ON INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. THE SCOPE OF THESE PROBLEMS REACHES, FROM THE QUESTION OF ITS BASIS TO THE MANY AND VARIED CONCEPTIONS OF AN IDEAL, DESIRABLE WORLD ORDER. THE RANGE IS FROM AN ANTITHEORETICAL PRAGMATISM TO REAL AND CONCEPTUAL DIFFICULTIES IN DEVELOPING RULES FOR PEACEFUL CHANGE.