Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> International Relations - Treaties

- Vladimir] Putin's aggression makes the possibility of a war in Europe between nuclear-armed adversaries frighteningly real, - writes Kimberly Marten in a new Council Special Report on tensions between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). She outlines how U.S. policymakers can deter Russian aggression with robust support for NATO, while reassuring Russia of NATO's defensive intentions through clear words and actions based in international law.

Marten, a professor of political science at Barnard College, Columbia University, and director of the...

With a New Introduction by Jörg Kammerhofer, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Law. Parallel text in French and English. This title is one of the most important documents in the establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice (1920–1946). Because the Statute of the Permanent Court was taken over by the International Court of Justice (since 1945) nearly unchanged, it remains of enormous practical and scholarly importance today.

In effect, this is the only documentary evidence we have of the drafters’ train of thought. More than a historical...

The European Union has increasingly taken on a role as international security provider that extends beyond the geographical scope of its membership. This is clear from the wide range of military and civilian crisis management missions that the Union has undertaken, but also identifiable through its other policies, such as the European Neighbourhood Policy and development assistance, which have also to some extent become security focused. Yet, the role of the EU as an international security provider remains under-theorized and weakly understood.
The proposed book analyses the Union’s...

Indian Ocean studies, which once lagged behind studies of the Atlantic and the Pacific, is an important emerging academic field which has come into its own. In the next fifty years, the Indian Ocean Region will become very significant as a result of enormous demographic changes. What was the Ocean of the South is rapidly becoming the Ocean of the Centre, the Ocean of the Future. Curtin University, Western Australia, has a long and distinguished history of engagement with the Indian Ocean region and with Indian Ocean Studies, and its Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute of Curtin University...