Public international law

This book reports on advanced concepts in fuzzy graph theory, showing a set of tools that can be successfully applied to understanding and modeling illegal human trafficking.

This book explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities' requests of inclusiveness and autonomy.

Globalization has increased the number of individuals in criminal proceedings who are unable to understand the language of the courtroom, and as a result the number of court interpreters has also increased.

The book focuses on the topic of trends and challenges with regards to satellite-based earth observation.

This book offers an edited volume for all readers who wish to gain an in-depth grasp of the economic analysis of recent developments in energy law and policy in Europe and the United States.

This book provides an overview of contemporary trends and challenges in maritime energy management (MEM).

This book provides an insight into commercial relations between large economies and Small States, the benefits of regional integration, the role of Small States as financial centres as well as B2B and State to State dispute resolution involving Small States.

This book analyzes emergency legislations formed in response to terrorism.

The book considers some of the solutions proposed by Muslim activists and thinkers in their attempts to renew (tajdid) their ways of life and thought in accord with the demands of the age in which they lived.

The book reflects on the issues concerning, on the one hand, the difficulty in feeding an ever- increasing world population and, on the other hand, the need to build new productive systems able to protect the planet from overexploitation.

The focus of this publication is the uniqueness of the Baltic Sea from a legal perspective, and the regulatory voids that result from the multiple layers of regulation this area is subjected to: up to six layers of regulation (general international law, regional conventions, EU law, national laws, local and municipal rules plus a whole range of non-binding norms and other 'soft law' arrangements) act in parallel.

This book raises awareness of environmentally friendly and resource-sparing management of winter sports areas, in order to increase the number of certified ski areas.

This book focuses on Boko Haram and terrorism in Nigeria, framing the conflict in an international law context.

As the epicenter of Christianity has shifted towards Africa in recent decades, Pentecostalism has emerged as a particularly vibrant presence on the continent.

This is the first book in the Interdisciplinary European Studies collection.

This book focuses on the World Bank's sanctions system, which is an innovative instrument of global governance implemented by the leading multilateral development bank in order to impose penalties on legal entities and individuals that are involved in Bank-financed projects.

This book provides a broad set of information and data on the rise of private actors in the space sector, organized into different topics covering the various trends that have shaped the space sector during the last decade.

This book focuses on a little-studied yet virulent and devoted fascist faction that was active within Zionist circles during the 1920s and 1930s.

The book presents contributions from Brazilian experts on the regulation of different energy sources.

This book addresses current practices in customary law.

This book describes the global legal framework for safeguarding the "e;Intangible Cultural Heritage"e; - as defined by the UNESCO Convention in 2003 - and analyses its use in selected countries in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe.

This book addresses a wide range of contemporary operational maritime law issues across the spectrum of operations.

This book addresses questions in connection with the international legal regime on demands for secession, which have arisen in various States.

The Yearbook on Space Policy, edited by the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI), is the reference publication analysing space policy developments.

This volume analyses criminal procedural issues from a European perspective, particularly in connection with EU law and ECHR law.

This book discusses the many legal aspects arising in relation to the maintenance of peace in Africa.

Christianity flourishes in areas facing profound dislocations amidst regime change and warfare.

This edited volume provides a fresh analysis for researcher and practitioners regarding United Nations Security Council resolution 1540, the status of its implementation, and its future by providing an original evaluation of progress in implementation and challenges faced during the resolution's first decade.

Designed and modeled after a six-week introductory food law course taught at Northeastern University, Food Law and Regulation for Non-Lawyers offers a succinct overview of key topics and core concepts for food scientists, quality managers, and others who need to understand the regulation of food in the U.

This book explores how politics, religion and cinema encounter and re-invent each other in contemporary Turkish cinema.

This book discusses global mobile satellite communications (GMSC) for maritime, land (road and rail), and aeronautical applications.

This book takes up one of the key theoretical challenges in the English School's conceptual framework, namely the nature of the institutions of international society.

This book is the inaugural edition of the Nigerian Yearbook of International Law.

This book gathers international and national reports from across the globe on key questions in the field of antitrust and intellectual property.

Pope Francis confuses many observers because his papacy does not fit neatly into any pre-established classificatory schemes.

This book argues that Islam has been securitized in US foreign policy, especially during the W.

This Brief examines the role of United States private military contractors (PMCs) in human trafficking and forced labor in case studies of Iraq and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty this book gives a first insight into where the next generation considers room for further improvement of the Outer Space Treaty in order to cope with upcoming aspects such as providing solutions for the emerging commercial, economic, environmental and social questions.

This book provides a unique in-depth comparative and evaluative analysis based upon primary sources.

This book offers new insights and original empirical research on private military and security companies (PMSCs), including China's negotiation approach to governance, an account of Nigeria's first engagement with regulatory cooperation under the threat of Boko Haram, and a study of PMSCs in Ebola-hit Western Africa.

The book offers a comprehensive perspective on the highly topical issue of protecting and promoting labour standards in international economic law and the globalized economy.

This Brief uses the theory of norm contestation as a model for understanding variation in norm-related behavior in international relations.

This book addresses the environmental, legal, social, and economic aspects of corporate social responsibility in the maritime industry.

This book presents an important discussion on soil and sustainable agriculture from a range of perspectives, addressing key topics such as sustainable intensification, the FAO Voluntary Guidelines, and the crucial role of appropriate tenure rights.

This book offers the first benchmarking study of China's response to the problems of security in cyber space.

This book sheds new light on the security challenges for failed states posed by violent non-state armed actors (VNSAs).

This volume identifies existing statist approaches and political economies of river management in South Asia.

This book is based on presentations from the Conference 'Arctic Marine Resource Governance' held in Reykjavik Iceland in October 2015.

This book addresses the technological evolution of modern warfare due to unmanned systems and the growing capacity for cyberwarfare.

This book presents principal structures of space systems functionality of meteorological networks, media and applications for modern remote sensing, transmission systems, meteorological ground and users segments and transferring weather data from satellite to the ground infrastructures and users.