International institutional law

The current decade has been characterized by a resurgence of interest in the law of public international organizations. This fourth, revised edition of International Institutional Law covers the most recent developments in the field. Although public international organizations such as the United Nations, the International ...

Textos básicos de organizaciones internacionales

Defining civil and political rights

the jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee

INDEX: Introduction, Scott Davidson; Procedure under the optional protocol, Scott Davidson; Self-determination, Richard Burchill; Democratic and civil rights, Alex Conte; Security of the person, Alex Conte; The judicial process, Alex Conte; Privacy, honour and reputation, Alex Conte; Equality and non-discrimination, Scott Davidson; Minority rights, Richard ...

Issues of State responsability before International Judicial Institutions

This book contains papers presented at a high-level conference that was jointly organized by the Institute of Global Law, University College London and the Institute of International Law, Queen Mary, University of London. The chapters cover issues of State Responsibility before the following international judicial ...

The chapter VII powers of the United Nations Security Council

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the questions pertaining to the powers of the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations. In doing so it departs from the premise that an analysis of the limitations to the powers of ...

Privilegios e inmunidades de las organizaciones internacionales

El libro permite una mejor comprensión del funcionamiento de los organismos internacionales y contiene reflexiones sobre el establecimiento de mecanismos para los casos de reclamaciones de los funcionarios y empleados, así como la resolución de conflictos con terceros, lo cual garantizaría la vigencia del derecho ...

La asistencia humanitaria en la Organización de las Naciones Unidas

fundamentos y perspectivas actuales

La asistencia humanitaria es una actividad tradicional de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas. Se arraiga en las funciones humanitarias de la Sociedad de Naciones y en la experiencia de los Aliados durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial a través de la Administración de las Naciones ...

Manuale di commercio estero

aggiornato all'ampliamento dell'Unione Europea

Autorizzazioni - Origine della merce - Adempimenti doganali, valutari e sanitari - Marcatura CE - Trasporti - Operazioni temporanee -Finanziamenti all'esportazione. L'opera illustra la gamma degli adempimenti connessi al commercio estero secondo filoni di omogeneità in ordine alle attività pratico-amministrative, al fine di rendere più chiaro il panorama ...

Regional organisations and the development of collective security

beyond chapter VIII of the UN Charter

This book examines the development of collective security by regional organisations particularly after the Cold War. It analyses the various constitutional developments that have occurred within regional arrangements such as ECOWAS, African Union, SADC, OAS, and NATO and critically analyses how these developments have propelled ...

Compliance with decisions of the International Court of Justice

This book examines the compliance record of states parties to proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial body of the United Nations. It undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the follow-up of the ICJ's judgments and interim measures from the Court ...

Votos y vetos en la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas

Como el foro más representativo de la comunidad internacional, cuyos miembros tienen todos los mismos derechos, la Asamblea General de la ONU conforma, al menos en su concepción, una especie de parlamento universal. En este libro, Miguel Marín Bosch aprovecha su experiencia como diplomático para ...

Legal instruments in the fight against international terrorism

a transatlantic dialogue

This book finds its origins in a transatlantic colloquium held in the European Parliament in Brussels in May 2002. After an introductory overview of the US and European responses to 9/11 it addresses the main legal aspects of the fight against international terrorism, namely ...

Las nuevas fronteras del sector público ante la globalización

El proceso de globalización económica plantea nuevos retos al sector público, que se encuentra ante la tesitura de hacer frente a nuevas demandas y necesidades mientras son crecientes las dificultades para gravar bases imponibles cada vez más móviles. Asimismo, el proceso de globalización requiere examinar ...

World-systems analysis

an introduction

Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach to understanding the history and development of the modern world that he pioneered thirty years ago. Since Wallerstein first developed world-systems analysis, it has become a widely utilized methodology within the historical social sciences ...

Entre modernité et mondialisation

leçons d´histoire de la philosophie du droit et de l'Etat

Poder y contra-poder en la era global

la nueva economía política mundial

Los europeos seguimos fingiendo que Alemania, Francia, Italia, los Países Bajos, España, etcétera, continúan existiendo. Pero ya hace mucho que no existen, pues los contenedores de poder y las unidades sociales delimitadas que constituían los Estados nacionales son ahora, máxime con la introducción del euro ...

Democracy beyond borders

justice and representation in global institutions

Global institutions exercise unprecedented power, yet they are often unaccountable to the people they claim to serve. From the hallowed halls of the United Nations to the closed boardrooms of multinational corporations, decisions are made that impact on all our lives, but are not necessarily ...

Le relazioni internazionali nell'era dell'interdipendenza e dei Diritti umani

In presenza degli ampi processi di transnazionalizzazione e mondializzazione della convivenza umana sul pianeta, si avverte l'esigenza di una cultura politica idonea a rispondere alle nuove sfide e a promuovere un ordine di pace positiva. I tradizionali paradigmi di lettura delle relazioni internazionali non ...

The nation-state and global order

a historical introduction to contemporary politics

This engaging introduction to contemporary politics examines the historical construction of the modern territorial state. Opello and Rosow fuse accounts of governing practices, technological change, political economy, language, and culture into a narrative of the formation of specific state forms. This revised edition reinforces their ...

Globalization and inequality

neoliberalism's downward spiral

Has the far-reaching experiment in creating a new world order along neoliberal lines succeeded? John Rapley answers with an emphatic no, contending that the rosy picture painted by neoliberal proponents of globalization was based on false assumptions. True, Rapley acknowledges, neoliberal reforms often did generate ...