The events relating to Iraq have been critical in defining the post-Cold War inter- national system of peace and secnrity. Dealing with Iraq covered the whole legal, political and emotional spectrum. The initial triumphalism was replaced by cyni- cism and apathy, ending in division and enmity. Above all, it raised questions about the political and legal foundations of the international secnrity system, its players and their interests. The object of the present paper is to examine the cnr- rent meaning and nature of the collective secnrity system premised on the United Nations. An...

This volume deals with the non-governmental part of international sports law. Included are basic documents of an institutional nature, i.e. the Statutes/Constitutions, etc., of universal sports organisations. Two main categories of universal sports organisations are represented in this work: the international umbrella' organisations, not limited to any single sport, and the so-called international sports federations which are organised for each branch of sport, insofar as they concern Olympic sports. The collection of documents was realised within the framework of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut's...

The 1997 Netherlands Yearbook of International Law contains expert articles on issues such as: General Principles of Law', soft' law and the identification of international law; Human rights in the development policy of the European Community: towards a European World order? The documentation section surveys Dutch state practice for the parliamentary year 1995-1996; international agreements to which the Netherlands is a party; Netherlands judicial decisions and municipal legislation involving questions of public international law, and Dutch literature in the field of public...