The International Court of Justice

In recent years States have made more and more extensive use of the International Court of Justice for the judicial settlement of disputes. Despite being declared by the Court's Statute to have no binding force for States other than the parties to the case ...

Theory of the border

Despite - and perhaps because of - increasing global mobility, there are more types of borders today than ever before in history. Borders of all kinds define every aspect of social life in the twenty-first century. From the biometric data that divides the smallest aspects of our ...

Fronteras internacionales de España en África

Melilla

Melilla, junto con Ceuta, representa la única frontera terrestre europea con África. Pero además, el caso concreto de Melilla es muy particular y único por la existencia de una serie de infraestructuras fronterizas que hacen aún más compleja, si cabe, la posibilidad de delimitar sus ...

La comedia de la cooperación internacional

historias etnográficas del desarrollo en la Isla de Camiguin (Filipinas)

Los proyectos de cooperación internacional son un encuentro de mundos dispares en los que la forma de entender y la de conocer difieren en gran medida. No existen, como muchos creen, racionalidades compartidas, unívocas, sin fronteras. Este es un mito que opera obedeciendo, más que ...

Principles of international economic Law

Principles of International Economic Law provides a comprehensive overview of the central topics in international economic law, with an emphasis on the interplay between the different economic and political interests on both the international and domestic levels. Following recent tendencies, the book sets the classic ...

BP blowout

inside the gulf oil disaster

The inside story of the worst environmental disaster in American history Blowout is the first comprehensive account of the legal, economic, and environmental consequences of the April 2010 blowout at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico. The accident destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil ...

We kill because we can

from soldiering to assassination in the drone age

Welcome to the Drone Age. Where self-defense has become naked aggression. Where courage has become cowardice. Where black ops have become standard operating procedure. In this remarkable and often shocking book, Laurie Calhoun dissects the moral, psychological, and cultural impact of remote-control killing in the ...

International tribunals and human security

The purpose of this text is to evaluate the extent to which international judicial institutions-principally the four most prominent tribunals, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Court- ...

Tratado de Derecho del mar

"El presente Tratado de Derecho del Mar, es una obra de máxima excelencia académica en donde se analizan la inmensa mayoría de los temas, a veces intrincados y espinosos, del Derecho Internacional del Mar. El tratamiento de los diversos tópicos se realiza en forma consistente ...

La gobernanza internacional de las migraciones

de la gestión migratoria a la protección de los migrantes

Las migraciones internacionales constituyen un fenómeno trasnacional cuya gestión ha sido tradicionalmente asumida por los Estados de destino en el ejercicio de su soberanía. Con ocasión de la globalización, el panorama migratorio se ha ido transformando y la cuestión migratoria ha ido ocupando un lugar ...

Traficantes de personas

el negocio de los secuestros y la crisis de los refugiados

Loretta Napoleoni pone al descubierto cómo los secuestros, el contrabando y el tráfico de refugiados se han convertido en la principal vía de financiación de ISIS ¿Volverá Occidente a cosechar los frutos del caos político que sembró en su propio jardín? Napoleoni, con su estilo ...

When conflict resolution fails

an alternative to negotiation and dialogue

Bringing warring parties to the negotiating table is the aim of any peace process. But what happens when those negotiations falter and conflict resolution fails? Is everything lost or are there prospects for meaningful change in even the most intractable of conflicts? In this insightful ...

Should we fear Russia?

Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, there has been much talk of a new Cold War between the West and Russia. Under Putin’s authoritarian leadership, Moscow is widely seen as volatile, belligerent and bent on using military force to get its way. In ...

Migrant, refugee, smuggler, saviour

Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour investigates one of the most under-examined aspects of the great migration crisis of our time. As millions seek passage to Europe in order to escape conflicts, repressive governments and poverty, their movements are enabled and actively encouraged by professional criminal networks ...

La paz perpetua

Obra emblemática del espíritu del siglo XVIII, “La paz perpetua” (1795) se inserta dentro de esa parte hegemónica del pensamiento de la Ilustración para la que el mundo ha de ser una gran república en concordancia con la universalidad del hombre. En este influyente tratado ...

Maritime areas = Espaces marins

control and prevention of ilegal traffics at sea = surveillance et pévention des traffics illicites en mer

Marine areas give rise to various illegal activities at sea: piracy and robbery, human trafficking and illegal immigration, drug trafficking, illegal fishing. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982, Montego Bay, provides various legal regimes of state intervention at sea ...

No borders

the politics of immigration control and resistance

From the streets of Calais to the borders of Melilla, Evros, and the United States, the slogan 'No borders!' is a thread connecting a multitude of different struggles for the freedom to move and to stay. But what does it mean to make this slogan ...

Global environmental constitutionalism in the anthropocene

There is persuasive evidence suggesting we are on the brink of human-induced ecological disaster that could change life on Earth as we know it. There is also a general consensus among scientists about the pace and extent of global ecological decay, including a realisation that ...

Theory of international law

This book seeks to analyse various aspects of international law, the link being how they structure and marshal the different forces in the international legal order. It takes the following approaches to the matter. First, an attempt is made to determine the fundamental characteristics of ...

International Human Rights protection

balanced, critical, realistic

nternational Human Rights Protection, addressed to judges and lawyers, diplomats and civil servants, researchers and students, is based on the author’s personal research and personal involvement with a wide range of subjects, such as the basic concepts of civil and social rights, discrimination and ...