Public international law

Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine explores the analogy between the self and political society in the thought of St.

This book critically addresses the still prevalent assumption of the individual's procedural disability in international judicial fora.

This book focuses on under-explored and often neglected issues in contemporary African environmental philosophy and ethics.

This book analyses the ability of existing international law to address common vulnerabilities in connection with the recent emergence of small satellites, and how finding consensus in this context can pave the way to the sustainable development of space.

Against the backdrop of enormous technological strides, this book argues that the air transport industry must be constantly vigilant in its efforts to employ a legal regime that is applicable to the aeronautical and human aspects of the carriage by air of persons and goods.

Planetary defense from near-Earth objects such as asteroids is a far more nuanced and challenging topic than it might seem.

All of the topics discussed in this book - from sovereignty to cybercrime, and from drones to the identification of passengers & privacy - are profoundly affected by algorithms; so are air traffic services and aeronautical communications.

This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing challenges to the liberal international order.

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

This book provides a broad understanding of whether law plays a role in influencing patterns of sustainable consumption and, if so, how.

The book examines how and according to which principles the enactment of European criminal legislation is legitimate.

This second volume on the constitutional dimension of contract law explores this increasingly relevant subject in jurisdictions that are usually overlooked by mainstream scholarship in the English-speaking world.

This book proposes a framework for assessing countries' levels of compliance with international space law and norms.

This book provides an in-depth investigation of the concept of space power and devises a novel conceptual framework for empirically measuring and comparing different typologies of space actors on the basis of clearly defined criteria.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current space exploration in terms of geopolitical and commercial aspects.

This book investigates the forgotten years of Kurdish nationalism in Iran, from the fall of the Kurdish republic to the advent of the Iranian revolution.

This book explains a perspective on the system of justice that emerges in Islam if rules are followed and how the Islamic system is differentiated from the conventional thinking on justice.

This book examines religious activism-Christianity, Buddhism, and Taoism-in China, a powerful atheist state that provides one of the hardest challenges to existing methods of transnational activism.

This book examines the UK approach to investigating international crimes and serious human rights violations.

This volume examines the possibility - or need - of a revitalization of pacifism as a world-political practice.

This book compares the thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss, bringing Oakeshott's desire for a renaissance of poetic individuality into dialogue with Strauss's recovery of the universality of philosophical enlightenment.

Written with passion for anyone interested in seeing an end to the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, this book shows how, by working together, people all over the world who care about these animals are gradually bringing about change for the better.

This book provides a unique analysis of prisons and the violence at work inside them.

This book describes militias as significant and prevalent actors in today's international security environment.

This book introduces readers to the topical area of CSI: critical space infrastructure, which is defined as an emerging domain of systems-of-systems encompassing hardware, workforce, environment, facilities, business and organizational entities.

This book provides a current analysis of the legal and ethical challenges in preparing for and responding to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) crises.

This book provides an analysis and comparison of international insolvency rules, maritime laws and their inevitable intersection in maritime cross-border insolvencies.

Western political theory has many great strengths but also a few weaknesses.

The book addresses a topic at the intersection of two heavily regulated sectors: insurance and investment services.

This book further develops both the traditional and the behavioural approach to competition law, and applies these approaches to a variety of timely issues.

This is the first book to outline a basic philosophy of ecology using the standard categories of academic philosophy: metaphysics, axiology, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, and political philosophy.

This book investigates how various scientific communities - e.

This book addresses key challenges and conflicts arising in extractive industries (mining, oil drilling) concerning the human rights of workers, their families, local communities and other stakeholders.

This textbook offers valuable insights into the nexus between geography, geopolitics, and humanitarian action.

This book investigates under which circumstances vertical unbundling can lead to a more efficient market result.

This book explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the formulation of a global code of conduct for transnational corporations.

This book addresses current developments concerning the interpretation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the part of international courts and tribunals.

Assessing the extent to which armed conflict impacts the obligations that states have towards foreign investors and their investments under international investment treaties requires considering a wide range of issues, many of which are systemic in nature.

This study entails a theoretical reading of the Iranian modern history and follows an interdisciplinary agenda at the intersection of philosophy, psychoanalysis, economics, and politics and intends to offer a novel framework for the analysis of socio-economic development in Iran in the modern era.

This book is the first comprehensive and authoritative translation into English of national and international laws of Russia that relate to the Arctic from the early 19th century to the present, revealing the historical and current context of sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction across nearly half of the north polar region.

This book explains the original meaning of the two religion clauses of the First Amendment: "e;Congress shall make no law [1] respecting an establishment of religion or [2] prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

This book is based on an initiative made by the European Space Policy Institute, the European Centre for Space Law and the German Aerospace Center.

This book provides a detailed analysis on the history and development of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) and the Conference on Disarmament (CD) and the coordination and cooperation between these two fora.

This book provides an overview of the space sector in African countries, from a legal and policy point of view, analysing how the African Union's Space Policy and Strategy (ASPS) is implemented and highlighting the various space activities in each country.

This book represents a unique endeavor to elucidate the story of Kosovo's unilateral quest for statehood.

This book explores how the rule of power relates to the case of occupied Palestine, examining features of local dissent and international governance.

This edited volume explores the Israeli-Turkish relations in the 2000s from a multi-dimensional perspective providing a comparative analysis on the subjects of politics, ideology, civil society, identity, energy, and economic relations.

The ever-increasing use of technology is challenging the current status of the law, bringing about new problems and questions.

Using yet untapped resources from moral and political philosophy, this book seeks to answer the question of whether an all good God who is presumed to be all powerful is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that exists in our world.

The book describes the recent trends in space policy and the space sector overall.