This festschrift, dedicated to Judge Bruno Simma, traces the development of international law from regulating bilateral state-to-state relationships towards strengthening the entire international community by protecting human security, the global environment, and human rights. It provides both theoretical and practical insights into these sometimes conflicting goals, their basis in international law, and the role played by international institutions charged with upholding these values and interests.
The work thus examines the mechanism by which international law contributes to the...

Anyone who merely turns the pages of this new edition will find that 48 percent of the fig ures are familiar to him from the third edition. But whoever reads it will discover that no three consecutive pages of text have been transferred unaltered. The enormous development that has taken place since 1950, particularly the surprising extension in the practical applica tions of micrometeorology, have made it necessary to rewrite the book. In producing this work, I had in mind two aims which were linked more closely to each other than I had at first dared to hope. The new edition was to be a...

In der Person von Carl Schurz (1829-1906) verbinden sich einige der besten deutschen und amerikanischen politischen Traditionen. Rudolf Geiger zeichnet in dieser Biographie den abenteuerlichen Lebensweg des deutschen Revolutionars von 1848/49 und Freund Abraham Lincolns nach. Vor Henry Kissinger war Schurz der einzige in Deutschland geborene Politiker, der als Minister in einer amerikanischen Bundesregierung diente. In seinem politischen Leben in den USA ging es um die Unterstutzung Lincolns im Kampf gegen die Sklaverei, dann um die Auseinandersetzungen angesichts der Cliquenwirtschaft in den...