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Charting in detail the evolution of the international rules on the protection of historic and artistic sites and objects from destruction and plunder in war, this 2006 book analyses in depth their many often-overlapping provisions. It serves as a comprehensive and balanced guide to a subject of increasing public profile, which will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners of international law and to all those concerned with preserving the cultural heritage

Abstract
There is no doubt, as vividly highlighted in Nico Krisch's 'Jurisdiction Unbound: (Extra)territorial Regulation as Global Governance', that in certain sectors some economically weighty states seek to take advantage of the international law of jurisdiction with a view to determining unilaterally how particular transnational economic activities are conducted. This same law, however, particularly the jurisdictional obligations provided for among states parties by multilateral treaties, is not only capable of serving cooperative national regulation to secure transnational public goods but in respect of a wide range of activities is already doing so. Rather than a fundamental 'reorientation of jurisdiction towards the solution of common problems and the protection of global interests', what is needed is political will and diplomatic agreement to use even further the existing law, especially the treaty-based possibilities that it offers, to these ends.

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Chapter 5 of the Restatement of the Law (Fourth): The Foreign Relations Law of the United States provides a systematic, discerning and accessible account of the US law of foreign sovereign immunity as laid down in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), accompanied by consistent comparative reference to the international and foreign domestic law of state immunity. From the perspective of a non-US reader, however, where Chapter 5 adds greater value in its own right is in the attention it pays in the comments and reporters' notes to a range of preliminary issues of domestic law on the determination of which the provisions of the FSIA turn but that the latter do not regulate. These issues, although superficially peculiar to the US law of foreign sovereign immunity, arise similarly in connection with the corresponding international and foreign domestic rules. In this way, what are ostensibly the most particular aspects of Chapter 5 may be those of most universal interest.