Emerging from international society, international law reflects the particular characteristics of this society, as well as the relationships among the actors in the system. This analysis advances our understanding of the influences of international norms and international institutions on international cooperation. Its contributors cast new light on the factors enhancing, or impeding, cooperation among states. The insights gained suggest ways for enhancing states' incentives to cooperate through the design of norms and institutions.
Emerging from international society, international law reflects the particular characteristics of this society, as well as the relationships among the...
Globalization imposes pressures on the traditional welfare state. This book examines these pressures, and responses to them, from the less familiar perspective of international law. The book deals with the role of the international level in securing or supplementing national welfare functions. Thus, the authors evaluate the role of international labour law, social rights as human rights, the World Trade Organisation, non-governmental organisations and international taxation law, in the effort to maintain and promote welfare rights and the welfare state. In addition, the functions of...
Globalization imposes pressures on the traditional welfare state. This book examines these pressures, and responses to them, from the less familiar...
Why do states often fail to cooperate, using transboundary natural resources inefficiently and unsustainably? Benvenisti examines the contemporary international norms and policy recommendations that could provide incentives for states to cooperate. His approach is multi-disciplinary, proposing transnational institutions for the management of transboundary resources. Although global water policy issues seem set to remain a cause for concern for the foreseeable future, this study provides a new approach to the problem of freshwater, and will interest international environmentalists and lawyers,...
Why do states often fail to cooperate, using transboundary natural resources inefficiently and unsustainably? Benvenisti examines the contemporary int...
The law of occupation imposes two types of obligations on an army that seizes control of enemy land during armed conflict: obligations to respect and protect the inhabitants and their rights, and an obligation to respect the sovereign rights of the ousted government. In theory, the occupant is expected to establish an effective and impartial administration, to carefully balance its own interests against those of the inhabitants and their government, and to negotiate the occupation's early termination in a peace treaty. Although these expectations have been proven to be too high for most...
The law of occupation imposes two types of obligations on an army that seizes control of enemy land during armed conflict: obligations to respect and ...
Also available as an e-book The book argues that the decision-making processes within international organizations and other global governance bodies ought to be subjected to procedural and substantive legal constraints that are associated domestically with the requirements of the rule of law. The book explains why law - international, regional, domestic, formal or soft - should restrain global actors in the same way that judicial oversight is applied to domestic administrative agencies. It outlines the emerging web of global norms designed to protect the rights and interests of all affected...
Also available as an e-book The book argues that the decision-making processes within international organizations and other global governance bodies ...
