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Drawing on the personal experience of a leading international jurist, this book provides insights into the workings of international law and human rights from a global perspective that transcends the traditional divide between the West and the East, and the Global South and Global North.

Introduction / Surya P Subedi -- The status of unilateral sanctions in international law / Surya P Subedi -- Shades of grey : autonomous sanctions in the international legal order / Nigel D White -- Unilateral sanctions : creating chaos at bargain rates / Joy Gordon -- The implications of unilateral sanctions for the freedom of aviation / Nick Grief -- The impact of unilateral sanctions on regional integration treaties with special reference to the gulf cooperation council / Ali Abusedra -- The effect of unilateral sanctions on foreign investors and the foreign investment regime / Nicolette Butler -- The World Trade Organisation and unilateral sanctions : prohibited or possible? / James Watson -- Unilateral sanctions, universal postal union and state responsibility / Trisha Rajput -- Unilateral coercive measures : towards international humanitarian law and international human rights / Louisa Ashley -- Maritime lawfare : the impact of unilateral sanctions on law and practice on navigation and seaborne trade / Abhinayan Basu Bal -- Can unilateral sanctions and international environmental obligations of states coexist? / Amrisha Pandey -- Use of cyber means to enforce unilateral coercive measures in international law / Ali Abusedra, Abu Bakar Munir and Md Toriqul Islam -- Conclusions : the current law on unilateral sanctions, remedies against unlawful use of such sanctions and recommendations / Surya P Subedi.

"The updated edition of this acclaimed book offers a critical overview of the law of foreign investment, incorporating a thorough analysis of the principles and standards of treatment available to foreign investors in international law. It is authoritative and multi-layered, offering an analysis of the key issues and an insightful assessment of recent trends in the case law, from both developed and developing country perspectives. A major feature of the book is that it deals with the tension between the law of foreign investment and other competing principles of international law. In doing so, it proposes ways of achieving a balance between these principles and the need to protect the legitimate rights and expectations of foreign investors on the one hand, and the need not to restrict unduly the right of host governments to implement their public policy on the other, including the protection of the environment and human rights, and the promotion of social and economic justice within the host country. Many of the pioneering ideas that were advanced in the first edition of this book in 2008 have been taken up by governments and international organisations in their attempts to reform the investor-State dispute settlement mechanism and strike a balance between different competing principles in developing international investment law. Accordingly, this fourth edition captures the essence of the ongoing multiple reform processes -either planned or envisaged - currently underway"--

"The UN human rights agenda has reached the mature age of 70 years and many UN mechanisms created to implement this agenda are themselves in their middle-age, yet human rights violations are still a daily occurrence around the globe. The scorecard of the UN human rights mechanisms appears impressive in terms of the promotion, spreading of education and engaging states in a dialogue to promote human rights, but when it comes to holding governments to account for violations of these rights, the picture is much more dismal. This book examines the effectiveness of UN mechanisms and suggests measures to reform them in order to create a system that is robust and fit to serve the 21st century. This book [critiques] the rationale and effectiveness of each of the major UN human rights mechanisms, including the Human Rights Council, the human rights treaty bodies, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Special Rapporteurs and other Charter-based bodies. [The author] argues most of the UN human rights mechanisms have remained toothless entities and proposes measures to reform and strengthen it by depoliticising the workings of UN human rights mechanisms and judicialising human rights at the international level."--