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This handbook is a comprehensive and authoritative study of the modern law on the use of force. Over 50 experts in the field offer a detailed analysis, and to an extent a restatement, of the law in this area. It reviews the status of the law on the use of force and assesses what changes, if any, have occurred as a result of recent developments and offers cutting-edge and up-to-date scholarship on all major aspects of the prohibition of the use of force.

Bringing together the set of regional and international jurisprudence from courts and treaty bodies concerned with issues of minority rights, thiis work concludes with an evaluation of the contribution of the case-law reviewed to the development of universal standards of protection

This volume provides a commentary on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, which is the principal international document establishing minority rights in a legally binding way. It offers a detailed analysis of the Convention, drawing upon its negotiating history and implementation practice

This Oxford Handbook provides an authoritative and comprehensive analysis of one of the most controversial areas of international law. Over sixth contributors assess the current state of the international law prohibiting the use of force, assessing its development and analysing the many recent controversies that have arisen in this field.

This handbook is a comprehensive and authoritative study of the modern law on the use of force. Over 50 experts in the field offer a detailed analysis, and to an extent a restatement, of the law in this area. It reviews the status of the law on the use of force and assesses what changes, if any, have occurred as a result of recent developments and offers cutting-edge and up-to-date scholarship on all major aspects of the prohibition of the use of force

One million people in the UK alone demonstrated against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. A crucial element of the opposition to the war was the lack of a clear legal basis. This is the first book to analyze the lawfulness of the use of force against Iraq on the basis of formerly classified material made public by the official UK inquiry into the war.

This is a critical analysis of the international attempts to settle the Kosovo crisis, written from first hand insights of the settlement attempts. It covers several strands of analysis including the tension between state sovereignty and humanitarian concerns

This book traces the failure of international action in Kosovo from the late 1980s until NATO intervention in 1999, and endeavours to explain why so many opportunities for making peace were squandered during that time. Applying methodolody developed by the EU Conflict Prevention Network, it divides the conflict into four main phases and examines how, at each, chances for settlement were either lost or overlooked. It considers policy alternatives available at the time, and hypothesises reasons why these were ultimately discarded. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the author's own experince of the negotiations process, this book presents a hitherto unexplored thesis of the Kosovo conflict - that of a 'lag' in international action in relation to the situation on the ground - and seeks to draw from these failures some central lessons for the future of conflict prevention. (Quelle: Text Verlagseinband / Verlag)

Preliminary Materials -- I. Introduction -- II. A Concept With Multiple Meanings -- III. The Classical Right To Self-Determination -- IV. Constitutional Self-Determination -- V. Remedial Self-Determination -- VI. Effective Entities -- VII. Trading Self-Determination For Autonomy Or Enhanced Self-Governance -- VIII. Regionalisation, Federalisation, Or Union With Confirmation Of Territorial Unity -- IX. Deferring A Substantive Settlement While Agreeing To A Settlement Mechanism -- X. Balancing Self-Determination Claims -- XI. Conditional Self-Determination -- XII. Agreeing On Self-Determination But Deferring Implementation -- XIII. Establishing A De Facto State Through An International Process -- XIV. Supervised Independence -- XV. Conclusion: New Approaches To Self-Determination Settlements -- Annex I. Levels Of Legal Privileges Of Entities -- Annex II. Tables Of Settlements And Steps Towards Settlement -- Bibliography.