Rwanda and East Timor: Pattern of Violence -- Accountability Arrangements: Rwanda -- Accountability Arrangements: East Timor -- Profiling Perpetrators -- Conspiracy to commit genocide -- Superior Responsibility -- Guilty Pleas -- Conclusion.The main objective of this book is to make available to an informed audience a le gal and policy oriented study on accountability for serious human rights…
Introduction -- Part I Self-Determination and Secession Versus Territorial Integrity in International Law: The Recognition of the Right to Self-Determination in International Law -- The Right to Self-Determination and Unilateral Secession -- Part II The Independence of Kosovo and Crimea in the Light of Contemporary International Law: Kosovo's Long Road to Independence in 2008 -- The Crimea's De…
Introduction: The Promise, Practice and Challenges of Non-Kinetic Instruments of Power -- The Resilient Mind-Set and Deterrence -- On the Instrumentality of Soft Power; or Putin against Democracy Promotion -- 'NATO needs more than planes and tanks and guns’ – Western strategic communication in the 1970s and 1980s and its implications for today -- The Snake Oil of Stabilisation? Explaining t…
Foreword by Patricia Arias -- Introduction by Helena Torroja Mateu -- Afghanistan and Syria: Non-state Actors and their Negative Impact on Human Security by Mario Laborie -- Delimitation and Presence of PMSCs: Impact on Human Rights by Felipe Daza -- The Ineffectiveness of the Current Definition of a ‘Mercenary’ in International Humanitarian and Criminal Law by José L. Gómez del Prado -- …
The Problem of Liability in International Criminal Law -- Leadership Liability for Collective Crimes -- Putting the Leaders of Mass Atrocity on Trial -- A Comparative Theory of International Criminal Law -- Applying the Tools -- Subjectivity Reflected in the Common Law Tradition -- Objectivity Reflected in the Civil Law Tradition -- Shifting Trends in International Tribunals -- Applying a Compa…
Using legal arguments consistent with international law, this book explores whether and under which circumstances a State (or States) may establish and militarily enforce safe zones in countries that produce large-scale refugee outflows so as to protect its (or their) own interests by averting said outflows, as well as to alleviate human suffering in today’s world of civil and internal warfar…
Chapter 1: Introduction and Justification for Research -- Chapter 2: UN Peace Operations in Africa: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow -- Chapter 3: The Dark Side of UN Peacekeeping: Abuses and Violations in Africa -- Chapter 4: Responses to Peacekeeping Misconduct -- Chapter 5: Analysis and Implications to Broader Issues. .This timely volume explores the “dark side” of United Nations (UN) Peace…
Part I: Introduction -- 1. Creating an African Criminal Court -- 2. Historical and Political Background to the Malabo Protocol -- Part II: The Crimes in the Annex to the Malabo Protocol -- 3. Genocide (Article 28B), Crimes against Humanity (Article 28C), War Crimes (Article 28D) and the Crime of Aggression (Article 28M) -- 4. The Crime of Unconstitutional Change of Government (Article 28E) -- 5…
Many intelligence practitioners feel that the statutory footing on which intelligence agencies have been placed forms an impediment to confronting unprecedented contemporary challenges. On the basis of case studies spanning the period from the First World War to the present, this book argues that while the intelligence community in the era of globalization has indeed come to face new and comple…
Chapter 1. Introduction: Francisco de Vitoria and the Origins of the Modern Global Order, Anthony Pagden -- Chapter 2. From the “imago Dei” to the “bon sauvage”: Francisco de Vitoria and the Natural Law School, Franco Todescan.- Chapter 3. The Sovereignty of Law in the Works of Francisco de Vitoria, Simona Langella -- Chapter 4. Vitoria, the common good and the limits of political powe…