This work describes the major changes in state relations which have occurred during the 20th century and the sources from which they emerged. It looks at the following areas, considering their contribution to an emergent new international society made up of diverse international organizations, and increasingly complex legal and customary international norms: population growth; patterns of production and consumption; economic developments and war; political ideologies; and patterns of governance. It also looks at state strategies in terms of these developments and how the choices of the major...

This work describes the major changes in state relations which have occurred during the 20th century and the sources from which they emerged. It looks at the following areas, considering their contribution to an emergent new international society made up of diverse international organizations, and increasingly complex legal and customary international norms: population growth; patterns of production and consumption; economic developments and war; political ideologies; and patterns of governance. It also looks at state strategies in terms of these developments and how the choices of the major...

Between the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the singing of the Helinski accords in August 1975, major changes occurred in the condition of the East-West conflict and more generally in the structure of great-power relations which had been built up since the end of the Second World War. This collection of documents, which includes the main speeches, treaties and agreements concluded between these two events, has been designed to illustrate the nature of these changes. The volume if prefaced by an analytical essay by the editors, and is subsequently divided into six sections. The...