Understanding global trade

Global trade is of vital interest to citizens as well as policymakers, yet it is widely misunderstood. This compact exposition of the market forces underlying international commerce addresses both of these concerned groups, as well as the needs of students and scholars. Although it contains ...

Lecciones de Derecho internacional público

Domestic Law goes global

legal traditions and international courts

International courts have proliferated in the international system, with over one hundred judicial or quasi-judicial bodies in existence today. This book develops a rational legal design theory of international adjudication in order to explain the variation in state support for international courts. Initial negotiators of ...

The individual in the international legal system

continuity and change in International Law

Kate Parlett's study of the individual in the international legal system examines the way in which individuals have come to have a certain status in international law, from the first treaties conferring rights and capacities on individuals through to the present day. The analysis ...

Trading fish, saving fish

the interaction between regimes in International Law

Numerous international legal regimes now seek to address the global depletion of fish stocks, and increasingly their activities overlap. The relevant laws were developed at different times by different groups of states. They are motivated by divergent economic approaches, influenced by disparate non-state actors, and ...

Ríos que nos separan, aguas que nos unen

análisis jurídico de los Convenios Hispano-Lusos sobre aguas internacionales

Esta monografía aborda un tema actual y de eminente interés práctico: la gestión sostenible de las Cuencas Hidrográficas Internacionales (CHI). Estas cuencas ocupan el territorio de dos o más Estados y sus aguas constituyen un recurso cada vez más escaso cuyo reparto está en la ...

National Courts an the international rule of Law

This book explores how domestic courts contribute to the maintenance of the rule of international law by providing judicial control over the exercises of public powers that may conflict with international law. The main focus of the book will be on judicial control of exercise ...

Hacia la regulación internacional de las empresas militares y de seguridad privadas

En los últimos años se ha abierto la puerta con gran irresponsabilidad, mayor intensidad y extensión, a la delegación y/o contratación del uso legítimo de la fuerza a actores privados. Este dato no debería pasarse por alto. Las empresas militares y de seguridad privadas ...

Transnational administrative rule-making

performance, legal effects and legitimacy

Eds. Olaf Dilling, Martin Herberg, Gerd Winter. In an age of globalisation, many regulatory problems lie beyond the reach of the nation state. Solutions have to be found which extend beyond territorial borders. Normally we would expect international law to be the appropriate forum for ...

La compraventa C.I.F.

La compraventa c.i.f. (cost, insurance, freight) es una de las más antiguas modalidades de compraventa marítima, conformada por décadas de prácticas y de experiencias profesionales en escenarios internacionales. Integra armónicamente en su propia definición otros contratos, sumamente complejos y especializados: el transporte y ...

Unidad y pluralismo en el Derecho internacional público y en la comunidad internacional

Coloquio en Homenaje a Oriol Casanovas, Barcelona, 21-22 de mayo de 2009

Eds. Ángel J. Rodrigo, Caterina García. Esta obra contiene un diálogo científico entre la obra del profesor Oriol Casanovas, Unidad y pluralismo en Derecho internacional público, y un conjunto de trabajos de destacados iusinternacionalistas españoles y extranjeros con el doble objetivo de rendirle un merecido ...

Organization of American States (OAS)

The Organization of American States (OAS) is the world's oldest regional multifunctional organization and has been in continuous existence since 1948. All 35 sovereign states of the Americas are members of the OAS. It is a multifunctional institution, dealing with security, technical cooperation, and ...

The participation of States in international organisations

the role of Human Rights and democracy

The admission of a state to membership is an important decision for an international organisation. In making this determination, organisations are increasingly promoting the observance of human rights and democratic governance as relevant principles. They have also applied the same criteria in resolving the question ...

La actividad del Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas en caso de amenaza a la paz

Los Estados atribuyeron al Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas la función primordial de mantener la paz y la segundad internacionales. Con las disposiciones aprobadas en 1945 y tras un largo periodo de actividad casi nula, el Consejo pudo, a partir de 1990, enfrentarse a ...

The UN Human Rights Committee

practice and procedure

As a result of its origins in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the amount of work that it has done, the UN Human Rights Committee is considered the most important body in the UN human rights treaty system. Sensitive to the ...

Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

The adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 September 2007 was acclaimed as a major success for the United Nations system given the extent to which it consolidates and develops the international corpus of ...

The global political system

This fully revised and updated English edition of a successful Italian text provides a sophisticated assessment of the theory and practice of world politics in the 21st century. Attinà examines the impact of issues, actors and trends on the contemporary world stage and assesses the ...

Rethinking international relations theory

This innovative assessment of the current state of International Relations theory diagnoses a deep malaise in the field and proposes a reorientation from metatheoretical concerns to the theoretical exploration of central policy issues and dilemmas confronting the 21st century world.

UE y América Latina, entre la cooperación y la asociación

Dirección y coordinación de Juan José Martín Arribas. Dado que la unión hace la fuerza, América Latina necesita a la UE y ésta a aquella para hacer frente común a los actuales retos capitales que se plantean, no sólo en el ámbito económico (como actual ...

International politics

power and purpose in global affairs

The first truly student-oriented text on this subject, "International Politics : Power And Purpose In Global Affairs, International Edition" is a full-length, highly engaging introduction to the study of world politics. D'Anieri's cohesive pedagogical framework presents the study of international politics as a series ...