Starke's International Law (International Student Edition)

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Description
In the fields of trade and commercial relations, communications, human rights and the environment, international law has come to play as crucial a role as it had earlier, and continues to play, in the traditional fields of diplomacy, treaty-making, the law of the sea, and the relations of states, Even in the short period of five years since the last edition appeared, significant new developments have occurred,and they are of course fully covered in this new and updated edition. Chief among these is the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982, now strengthened by the implementing Protocol of 1994 and able to assume its intended place as the greatest codifying instrument in the history of international law. Secondly, the collapse of the Soviet Union has enabled the United Nations to exercise more readily those powers long denied it by the USSR's right of veto, witnessed by the Security Council's action during the Iraq-Kuwait war. In addition,events in former Yugoslavia, Somalia and Rwanda continue to beg the question - when does a domestic matter assume the shape of a threat to regional or global peace and security upon which international action must be taken? Starke's International Law offers a reliable guide to basic principles,and current illustrations, of international law in practice, It is suitable for students of international law and of international relations at all levels of tertiary study, for judges and legal practitioners, for diplomats and government officers, and for the many others who recognise the inescapable place of international law in the fields of national law and policy as well as of international dealings.
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Contents
Part 1 - International Law in General
Chapter 1.    Nature, Origins and basis of International Law
Chapter 2.    The material ‘Sources’ of International Law
Chapter 3.    The subjects of International Law
Chapter 4.    The Relation between International Law and State Law
Part 2 - States as Subjects of International Law
Chapter 5.    States in General
Chapter 6.    Recognition
Chapter 7.    State Territorial Sovereignty and other Lesser Territorial
                     Rights of States
Part 3 - Rights and Duties of States
Chapter 8.    Jurisdiction
Chapter 9.    The Law of the Sea and Marriage Highways
Chapter 10.  State Responsibility
Chapter 11.  Succession to Rights and Obligations
Chapter 12.  The State and the Individual
Chapter 13.  The State and Economic Interests- International
                     Economic and Monetary Law
Chapter 14.  Development and the Environment
Part 4 - International Transactions
Chapter 15.  The Agents of International Business: Diplomatic
                     Envoys, Consuls, and other Representatives
Chapter 16.  The Law and Practice as to Treaties
Part 5 - Disputes and Hostile Relations (Including War, Armed Conflicts and Neutrality)
Chapter 17.  International Disputes
Chapter 18.  War, armed Conflicts and other Hostile Relations
Chapter 19.  Neutrality, Quasi-neutrality, and Non-belligerency
Part 6 - International Institutions
Chapter 20.  International Institutions
Note on Bibliography
Index
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Author Details
Ivan Shearer is the Challis Professor of International Law at the University of Sydney, Australia. Previously he taught international law at the Universities of Adelaide and of New South Wales, and has been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. In 1991 he served as Special Adviser in International law with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He is a Member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo, and has been a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Hague, since 1986.
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