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'Brownlie's Principles of Public International Law' has been shaping the study and application of international law for over 50 years. Serving as a single-volume introduction to the field as a whole, the text is one of the classic treatises on international law, now fully updated to order to take account of recent developments. It includes extensive references in order to provide a solid foundation for further research

Chance, Order, Change: The Course of International Law, General Course on Public International Law by J. Crawford The course of international law over time needs to be understood if international law is to be understood. This work aims to provide such an understanding. It is directed not at topics or subject headings — sources, treaties, states, human rights and so on — but at some of the key unresolved problems of the discipline. Unresolved, they call into question its status as a discipline. Is international law "law" properly so-called? In what respects is it systematic? Does it — can it — respect the rule of law? These problems can be resolved, or at least reduced, by an imaginative reading of our shared practices and our increasingly shared history, with an emphasis on process. In this sense the practice of the institutions of international law is to be understood as the law itself. They are in a dialectical relationship with the law, shaping it and being shaped by it. This is explained by reference to actual cases and examples, providing a course of international law in some standard sense as well

Statehood and recognition -- The criteria for statehood: statehood as effectiveness -- International law conditions for the creation of states -- Issues of statehood before united nations organs -- The criteria for statehood applied: some special cases -- Original acquisition and problems of statehood -- Dependent states and other dependent entities -- Devolution -- Secession -- Divided states and reunification -- Unions and federations of states -- International dispositive powers -- Mandates and trust territories -- Non-self-governing territories: the law and practice of decolonization -- The commencement of states -- Problems of identity, continuity and reversion -- The extinction of states