Nuclear waste

Law, policy and pragmatism

This book identifies the current treatment and proposed future of nuclear waste,looking at wider policies, stakeholder perceptions, international pressures and future energy scenarios. The key argument of the book is that, in the future, the regulation of nuclear waste must be treated as a ...

Armas nucleares y estados proliferadores

Estados Unidos

intervención y poder mesiánico: la guerra fría en Guatemala, 1954

Le conseil de sécurité dans l'après 11 septembre

The manual of the Law of armed conflict

This book is the first comprehensive manual on the law of armed conflict prepared by a team of expert scholars and practitioners working for and with the UK Ministry of Defence. It covers all aspects of the law of armed conflict as applied today, including ...

Enforcing international law norms against terrorism

This book comprehensively analyses the suitability of existing international legal tools to enforce rules prohibiting terrorism. Contributions from leading experts in international law examine, among others, questions relating to the proper role of international law in combating terrorism, the legality of covert operations against terrorism ...

Closing the books

transitional justice in historical perspective

This book offers an analysis of transitional justice # retribution andreparation after a change of political regime # from Athens in thefifth century b.c. to the present. Part I, #The Universe of TransitionalJustice,# describes more than thirty transitions, some of them in consid-erable detail, others more ...

Terrorisme et sécurité internationale

Comme tout événement d#une portée aussi grande que l#attaque du onze septembre 2001, il n#est pas surprenant qu#il y ait des efforts de proposer de nouvelles définitions, d#apporter des interrogations, et de rechercher de nouveaux facteurs pour expliquer ce qui ...

XXI, el siglo del terrorismo

terrorismo e intolerancia en la Aldea Global

11-M. Estas siglas marcarán un antes y un después en el concepto que la sociedad española tenía sobre el terrorismo. El 11 de marzo de 2004, España, y el mundo occidental en general, se vieron conmocionados con un nuevo atentado al estilo de llevado a ...

Healing the wounds

essays on the reconstruction of societies after war

In recent decades the world has experienced the rise of so-called #low intensity conflicts#. Unlike conventional wars these very bloody armed conflicts are no longer the affair of state governments and their armies. In their place appear police-like armed units, security services and secret services ...

Crimes de l'histoire et réparations

les réponses du Droit et de la justice

Cet ouvrage collectif vise à identifier les institutions et mécanismes à disposition de ceux qui réclament une réparation pour les crimes de l#histoire ainsi que les obstacles qu#ils rencontrent dans l#univers du droit. L#ouvrage constitue un outil précieux pour tous ceux ...

La responsabilité individuelle pour crime d'état en droit international

L#actualité témoigne de la résurgence du droit international pénal, longtemps décrit comme un droit dormant ou inactif depuis les procès de Nuremberg et de Tokyo. Il convient donc de ré-examiner la matière. Peut-on continuer d#analyser la répression des individus par des tribunaux internationaux ...

Enforcing international Law norms against terrorism

The scale and horror of recent terror attacks and the panic which ensued throughout the world has forced policy-makers and international lawyers to re-examine international legal tools available to enforce norms against terrorism. The magnitude of the attacks, the modalities of the operations, the profiles ...

Terrorism and new threats in southeast Asia

This UNISCI paper deals with the new threats to regional and global security. In the present international environment terrorism is at the top of the security agenda. It is considered as a strategic threat. The image of massive casualties and unlimited violence produces much concern ...

Sobre el terrorismo y la guerra

En este texto -que recoge una conferencia pronunciada por Ulrich Beck en la Duma estatal de Moscú en noviembre de 2001- el autor expone uno de los conceptos centrales de su pensamiento, el de la sociedad del riesgo global, al hilo de los acontecimientos sucedidos ...

Democratic accountability and the use of force in international law

Humanitarian intervention

ethical, legal, and political dilemmas

The genocide in Rwanda showed us how terrible the consequences of inaction can be in the face of mass murder. But the conflict in Kosovo raised equally important questions about the consequences of action without international consensus and clear legal authority. On the one hand ...

Justice at war

civil liberties and civil rights during times of crisis

Reading humanitarian intervention

Human Rights and the use of force in International Law

Conflicts in international environmental Law