The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is now a well-established international organization endowed with a sophisticated institutional web, which should allow it to perform the historical task of stabilizing Europe. As a regional organization under Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter, the OSCE can avail itself of classical tools of conflict prevention and crisis management, such as dispute settlement and peace-keeping. Lawyers immediately perceive the peculiarity of an organization whose constitutive instrument lies in the province of soft law instead of being based on...

The Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force on 29 April 1997. This text reviews the history of the chemical weapons negotiations and presents an analysis of the major features of the Convention.

This volume is the product of a joint effort at the Research Centre of the Hague Academy of International Law. In addition to the introductory reports by the two directors of studies, it assembles the contributions of participants from 15 countries - a group of young lawyers from very diverse legal cultures, who have since embarked on auspicious professional and academic careers. The topic selected, i.e., the instruments of international environmental policy, was an expedition into as yet uncharted territory, in the borderland of international economic law and international environmental law....

With considerable insight and analysis, the editors and contributors to the book--the world's leading ethicists, political scientists and international lawyers--investigate the use of force since the end of the Cold War and, simultaneously, what changes have or should occur with respect to sovereignty and the law in the 21st century. Redefining Sovereignty has resulted from three groundbreaking workshops on international law and the use of force: the first was held in Rome soon after NATO's 1999 intervention in Kosovo; the second took place in Frankfurt after the U.S.-led invasion of...

In der Festschrift behandeln anerkannte in- und auslandische Vertreter aus Wissenschaft und Praxis Probleme des Volkerrechts, Europarechts und Staatsrechts, denen sich der Jubilar in seinem beruflichen Wirken als Wissenschaftler und internationaler Richter schwerpunktmassig gewidmet hat.
Die 78 Beitrage in deutscher, englischer und franzosischer Sprache sind in sieben Sachrubriken geordnet:
- Quellen und Grundfragen des Volkerrechts,
- Menschenrechte im Staats- und Volkerrecht,
- Internationale Streitbeilegung,
- Staatsrecht und internationale Beziehungen,
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