Great powers and outlaw states [electronic resource] : unequal sovereigns in the international legal order / Gerry Simpson.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996)Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (413 p.)Content type: - text
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- 0511215266
- 0511217056
- 0511211686
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- 051121345X
- 341.26
- KZ4012 .S57 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 354-371) and index.
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Great Powers and outlaw states; 2 Sovereign equalities; 3 Legalised hierarchies; 4 Legalised hegemony: from Congress to Conference 1815-1906; 5 'Extreme equality': Rupture at the Second Hague Peace Conference 1907; 6 The Great Powers, sovereign equality and the making of the United Nations Charter: San Francisco 1945; 7 Holy Alliances: Verona 1822 and Kosovo 1999; 8 Unequal sovereigns: 1815-1939; 9 Peace-loving nations: 1945; 10 Outlaw states: 1999 11 Arguing about Afghanistan: Great Powers and outlaw states redux12 The puzzle of sovereignty; Select bibliography; Index
This book examines how unequal sovereigns have had a major impact on the way international relations are conducted. The author offers a way of understanding recent transformations in the global political order by recalling the lessons of the past, in particular the recent conflicts in Kosovo and Afghanistan.
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