An introduction to contemporary international law : a policy-oriented perspective / Lung-chu Chen.
2015
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Title
An introduction to contemporary international law : a policy-oriented perspective / Lung-chu Chen.
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Call Number
KZ3110 .C48 2015
Edition
Third edition.
ISBN
9780190227982 (hardback) : alk. paper)
0190227982 (hardback) : alk. paper)
9780190227999 (pbk.) : alk. paper)
0190227990 (pbk.) : alk. paper)
0190227982 (hardback) : alk. paper)
9780190227999 (pbk.) : alk. paper)
0190227990 (pbk.) : alk. paper)
Description
xxix, 641 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)882620339
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-596) and index.
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Table of Contents
About the Author
xv
Preface to the Third Edition
xvii
Preface to the Second Edition
xxiii
Preface to the First Edition
xxvii
Part One Delimitation Of The Task
1.
International Law in a Policy-Oriented Perspective
3
Myths and Realities about International Law
4
Inadequacies of Traditional Approaches to International Law
11
The Policy-Oriented Approach of the New Haven School
14
Part Two Participants
2.
Nation-States
25
Statehood
25
The Principle of Self-Determination
31
External Self-Determination in Practice: The Cases of Quebec and Kosovo
35
Self-Determination and World Order
37
The Theory and Practice of Recognition
40
Problems of Self-Determination and Recognition in Practice: The Evolution of Taiwan Statehood
46
3.
International Governmental Organizations
61
The U.N. System
62
International Organizations as Subjects of International Law
65
The United Nations and World Order
70
4.
Nongovernmental Organizations and Associations
77
Political Parties
77
Nongovernmental Organizations
79
Private Associations
85
5.
The Individual
91
Part Three Perspectives
6.
Minimum World Order and Optimum World Order
101
Common Humanity and Diverse Identifications and Expectations
103
Contending Systems of World Order
104
Differing Perspectives Today
108
Religion and World Order
108
China and World Order
111
Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)
114
People and Human Security at the Center of World Order
116
Part Four Arenas
7.
Establishment of and Access to Arenas of Authority
123
Establishment
124
Access
116
Compulsory Third-Party Decision Making
132
International Court of Justice (ICJ)
132
Ad Hoc Arbitral Tribunals
137
Dispute Settlement under the Convention on the Law of the Sea
138
Dispute Settlement in the World Trade Organization (WTO)
140
Investor-State Dispute Resolution
141
Part Five Bases Of Power
8.
Control over Territory
149
9.
Control and Use of the Sea
161
Basic Community Policy
162
Trends in Decision and Conditioning Factors
164
Internal Waters
167
The Territorial Sea
167
International Straits
169
Archipelagos
171
The Contiguous Zone
171
The Exclusive Economic Zone
172
The Continental Shelf
174
High Seas
176
The Area
178
The 1994 Agreement
180
Dispute Settlement under the 1982 Convention
181
Law of the Sea Claims
181
Appraisal
183
10.
Control and Use of Other Resources
189
International Rivers
189
Airspace
192
Outer Space
194
Polar Regions
198
The Global Environment
202
Toward Global Cooperation on Climate Change
206
11.
Control of People: Nationality and Movement
211
Basic Community Policy
212
Trends in Decision and Conditioning Factors
213
Control of Community Membership via Nationality
214
Conferment of Nationality
214
Withdrawal of Nationality
217
Statelessness
222
Multiple Nationality
225
Control of Movement of People
227
Competence to Admit, Exclude, and Expel vs. Individual Demands to Enter, Stay, and Leave
227
Asylum
231
Extradition
233
Terrorism
236
Appraisal
237
12.
Protection of People: From Alien Rights to Human Rights
241
The Remedy of Diplomatic Protection
241
Standard for the Treatment of Aliens
244
The Contemporary Global Human Rights Movement
246
A Developing Global Bill of Human Rights
247
Conjunction of Human Rights and State Responsibility
259
Universality of Human Rights vs. Cultural Relativism
263
The Evolving Notion of Popular Sovereignty: From State Sovereignty to the Responsibility to Protect
264
13.
Vertical Allocation of Authority
269
Domestic Jurisdiction vs. International Concern
270
Expanding International Concern in a Globalized World
272
Limits on Domestic Jurisdiction
274
14.
Horizontal Allocation of Authority
277
The Principle of Territoriality
281
The Principle of Nationality
281
The Principle of Impact Territoriality
282
The Principle of Passive Personality
283
The Principle of Universality
284
Sovereign Immunity
287
The Act of State Doctrine
290
Toward a Test of Reasonableness
294
Part Six Strategies
15.
The Diplomatic Instrument
301
Diplomatic and Consular Privileges and Immunities
302
Diplomatic Asylum
306
Coercive Use of the Diplomatic Instrument
307
Diplomatic Sanctions
308
Consular Protection of Nationals Abroad and the Intersection of Domestic and International Law
310
16.
International Agreements
317
Basic Community Policy
320
Trends in Decision and Conditioning Factors
320
The Process of Commitment
321
Competence
322
Adoption and Authentication of the Text
323
Consent to Be Bound
323
Reservation
324
Registration
325
Lack of Genuine Commitment (Grounds for Invalidity)
326
The Process of Performance
328
Pacta Sunt Servanda
328
The Task of Interpretation
328
Interparty Application
331
Effects on Third Parties
332
The Process of Change and Termination
332
Amendment and Modification
333
Withdrawal, Denunciation, Suspension, and Termination
334
The Relation between International Agreements and U.S. Constitutional Law
336
17.
The Ideological Instrument
343
Constructive Use
343
Coercive Use
344
Basic Community Policy
346
Trends in Decision and Conditioning Factors
347
The Drive toward a New World Information and Communication Order
349
Toward a Global Information Society in the New Era of Globalization
354
Appraisal
357
18.
The Economic Instrument
361
Economic Coercion
362
Economic Sanctions
363
The Struggle toward a New International Economic Order
369
Toward Human Development in the New Era of Globalization
373
Appraisal
375
19.
The Military Instrument
377
Basic Community Policy of Peaceful Change
378
Self-Defense
379
Self-Help
384
Humanitarian Intervention
388
From the Law of War to International Humanitarian Law
392
Part Seven Outcomes
20.
The Intelligence Function
403
21.
The Promoting Function
415
22.
The Prescribing (Lawmaking) Function
423
The Process of Prescription
424
International Agreement
426
Customary International Law
426
The Prescribing Role of International Governmental Organizations
431
The Role of the U.N. General Assembly
432
Appraisal
435
23.
The Invoking Function
439
24.
The Applying Function
447
Exploration of Facts
449
Recourse to Direct Negotiations
449
Third-Party Decision Making
450
Recourse to International Governmental Organizations (Especially the United Nations)
452
Recourse to Unilateral Measures of Self-Help
454
Toward Effective Management of Sanctioning Measures to Optimize Sanctioning Goals
455
25.
The Terminating Function
461
26.
The Appraising Function
469
Part Eight Effects
27.
Succession of States
481
Basic Community Policy
482
Trends in Decision and Conditioning Factors
483
International Agreements
484
Membership in International Governmental Organizations
488
Nationality
490
State Property
492
State Debts
494
State Archives
494
28.
Responsibility of States
497
Basic Community Policy
499
Trends in Decision and Conditioning Factors
499
What Act or Omission: An Internationally Wrongful Act
500
By Whom: The Concept of State Action[—]Imputability or Attributability
501
Standard of Conduct
502
Justifiable Defenses
504
Procedure for Remedy
504
Types of Remedy Available
506
29.
Individual Criminal Responsibility
509
International Criminal Law Prior to World War I
510
The Frustration of Attempts to Impose Individual Criminal Accountability in the Wake of World War I
511
Nuremberg and Its Legacy
513
Examples from the Cold War Era
516
Post[—]Cold War: Establishment of Ad Hoc Tribunals
517
The International Criminal Court (ICC)
520
Key Features of the ICC
521
Offenses Recognized
521
Complementary Jurisdiction
522
Personal Jurisdiction
523
Significant Procedural Mechanisms
523
The ICC's Progress Since 2002
525
Appraisal
529
Part Nine Prospects
30.
Toward a World Community of Human Dignity
535
Historical Development
535
Achievements and Failures in the Pursuit of Public Order Goals
538
Conditions Affecting World Order
542
Projections of Future World Order
545
Alternatives for a World Order of Human Dignity: A Grand Strategy of Simultaneity and Total Mobilization
546
Bibliography
553
Table Of Select Treaties
597
Index
615