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Description
In the fields of trade and commercial relations, communications, humanrights and the environment, international law has come to play ascrucial a role as it had earlier, and continues to play, in thetraditional fields of diplomacy, treaty-making, the law of the sea, andthe relations of states, Even in the short period of five years sincethe last edition appeared, significant new developments have occurred,and they are of course fully covered in this new and updated edition.
Chief among these is the United Nations Convention on the Law of theSea, 1982, now strengthened by the implementing Protocol of 1994 andable to assume its intended place as the greatest codifying instrumentin the history of international law. Secondly, the collapse of theSoviet Union has enabled the United Nations to exercise more readilythose powers long denied it by the USSR's right of veto, witnessed bythe Security Council's action during the Iraq-Kuwait war. In addition,events in former Yugoslavia, Somalia and Rwanda continue to beg thequestion - when does a domestic matter assume the shape of a threat toregional or global peace and security upon which international actionmust be taken?
Starke's International Law offers a reliable guide to basic principles,and current illustrations, of international law in practice, It issuitable for students of international law and of internationalrelations at all levels of tertiary study, for judges and legalpractitioners, for diplomats and government officers, and for the manyothers who recognise the inescapable place of international law in thefields of national law and policy as well as of international dealings.
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Contents
Part 1 - International Law in General
Chapter 1. Nature, Origins and basis of International Law
Chapter 2. The material ‘Sources’ of International Law
Chapter 3. The subjects of International Law
Chapter 4. The Relation between International Law and State Law
Part 2 - States as Subjects of International Law
Chapter 5. States in General
Chapter 6. Recognition
Chapter 7. State Territorial Sovereignty and other Lesser Territorial
Rights of States
Part 3 - Rights and Duties of States
Chapter 8. Jurisdiction
Chapter 9. The Law of the Sea and Marriage Highways
Chapter 10. State Responsibility
Chapter 11. Succession to Rights and Obligations
Chapter 12. The State and the Individual
Chapter 13. The State and Economic Interests- International
Economic and Monetary Law
Chapter 14. Development and the Environment
Part 4 - International Transactions
Chapter 15. The Agents of International Business: Diplomatic
Envoys, Consuls, and other Representatives
Chapter 16. The Law and Practice as to Treaties
Part 5 - Disputes and Hostile Relations (Including War, Armed Conflicts and Neutrality)
Chapter 17. International Disputes
Chapter 18. War, armed Conflicts and other Hostile Relations
Chapter 19. Neutrality, Quasi-neutrality, and Non-belligerency
Part 6 - International Institutions
Chapter 20. International Institutions
Note on Bibliography
Index
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Author Details
Ivan Shearer is the Challis Professor of International Law at the University of Sydney, Australia. Previously he taught international law at the Universities of Adelaide and of New South Wales, and has been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. In 1991 he served as Special Adviser in International law with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He is a Member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo, and has been a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Hague, since 1986.
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