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The scope of this study is narrow-the activities of a single ambas
sador for little more than two years. The problem it treats is wide
and universal-the origins of a great war. There can be no adequate
history of the relations between states whieh does not take into
account the knowledge, judgment and deci sions of individual
statesmen. Diplomatie history, though only a part, is a necessary
part of the history of international relations. Within a more or
less c10sely circumscribed range of possibilities, men in power
choose between alternative policies, with results they may or may
not have anticipated. The historian therefore can and should
describe the past, present and future, as it were, of the
historical persons whom he studies: the past whieh provides them
with oppor tunities and limitations, both objective and subjective;
the present in whieh they act; the future in whieh the consequences
of their actions appear, for the most part beyond their control.
This is a study of the part played by a great diplomat-the perfect
ambassador, his own age called hirn-in the formation of policy. My
task has been a dual one. First, I have observed Arnauld de
Pomponne at work. Second, I have attempted to evaluate the French
plans for war against the Dutch republic, with particular attention
to Pom ponne's contribution to them.
to his suggestions for corrective action at government level, will
naturally vary according to the interests of each government in
upholding the ap proach it regards as consistent with its own basic
interests and those of its international airline. I commend this
book as a most valuable treatment of the subjects which are of
concern not only to the academic student but also to those engaged
in the study and application of international civil aviation
agreements in governments and airlines. It would be fitting if it
enjoys, as it should, wide circulation amongst such students and
practicioners. Sir Donald Anderson Director-General of Civil
Aviation Melbourne, Australia. April, 1970. TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST
OF ABBREVIATIONS XI CHAPTER ONE I. The Technique of government 1
II. International civil aviation regulation 4 III. National vs
international approach 9 CHAPTER Two I. International control of
the air traffic market 17 II. Freedom classification and traffic
data 22 III. The air traffic market and the exchange of routes and
traffic rights 28 IV. The sixth freedom issue 32 V. Route
specification 40 VI. Equal opportunity 46 CHAPTER THREE I.
Non-scheduled and scheduled air carriers 51 II. All-cargo services
59 III. Inclusive tour traffic 63 IV. Non-inclusive tour (affinity)
charter traffic 72 V. Traffic rights for charter carriers 79
CHAPTER FOUR I. Cooperative arrangements 104 II. Aircraft lease
agreements in international air transp- tation 114 III. Affiliation
between air carriers 120 IV."
Doctor Hyder's meticulous and comprehensive study throws much
needed light on the often invoked but little understood concept of
"discrimination" in international law. It is also of great
practical value to those who are concerned with the law of
international trade. "Discrimination" is a word with bad
connotations. It suggests un fairness, prejudice and favouritism.
It seems to point to adeparture from the ideal of equal
opportunities, equal rewards and even-handed legal protection of
all human beings without regard to differences of race, religion,
ethnic origin or sex. Similarly, in public international law
"discrimination" suggests violation of the principle of equality of
states. Yet there are vast areas of international relations in
whieh states are regarded as being legally free, except as
specially provided in treaties, to make distinctions between other
states or their nationals. The principle of equality of states
merely means that the many rules constituting what is often called
"general (or universal) international law" apply equally to all
independent states. Hence, by definition, such states have equal
rights and duties under general international law. But the latter
leaves vast areas of transnational activity to be regulated by
states at their discretion either unilaterally or by special
agreement with other states. No state has, in fact, exactly the
same totality of rights and duties as other states, since no two
states are parties to exactly the same treaties. By treaty, astate
often grants to another state a right which it may withhold from
third states."
The traditional doctrine of Islamic law in regard to international
re lations is well known. The Shari'a includes many excellent
provisions about declarations of war, treaties of peace,
armistices, diplomatic envoys, negotiations and guarantees of safe
conduct. But the fact remains that it divides the world, broadly
speaking, into the "Abode of Islam" and the "Abode of 'War," and
that it envisages the continu ance of intermittent war between them
until the latter is absorbed in the former. In the course of such
fighting, and in the intervals in be tween, many civilities were to
be meticulously observed; but prisoners of war could be killed,
sold or enslaved at the discretion of the Muslim authorities, and
the women of those who resisted the advance of Islam could be taken
as slave-concubines, regardless of whether they were single or
married. The "Abode of Islam" did not, indeed, consist ex clusively
of Muslims, for those whose religion was based on a book accepted
by Islam as originally inspired and in practice, indeed, those
other religions too - were not forced to embrace Islam but only to
accept Muslim rule. They were granted the status of dhimmis, were
protected in their persons and their property, were allowed to
follow their own religion in an unobtrusive fashion, and were
accorded the position of essentially second-class citizens. They
were also of course, perfectly free to embrace Islam; but for a
Muslim to be converted to another faith involved the death
penalty."
Das Buch befasst sich mit der Fragestellung nach einer
Konstitutionalisierung des Voelkerrechts und beleuchtet diese aus
einer systemtheoretischen Sichtweise. Das Werk setzt sich zunachst
intensiv mit der Systemtheorie von Niklas Luhmann auseinander und
analysiert anschliessend sowohl vorherrschende
Konstitutionalisierungs- als auch Fragmentierungstendenzen.
Ausfuhrlich wird dabei auf den Ansatz des sog. Societal
Constitutionalism eingegangen und die Hauptthese der Vertreter
dieses Ansatzes kritisch gewurdigt. Schliesslich beleuchtet das
Werk die Konstitutionalisierung des Voelkerrechts unter
systemtheoretischen Gesichtspunkten und untersucht, inwieweit ein
autonomes oder sogar autopoietisches Rechts- und Politiksystem auf
internationaler Ebene existieren und ob diese beiden Systeme analog
zur nationalstaatlichen Ebene durch eine Art strukturelle Kopplung
verbunden sind. Im Kern bejaht das Werk ein Vorliegen einer
strukturellen Kopplung und dadurch auch eine Konstitutionalisierung
zumindest in einem abgeschwachten Mass.
Global climate change is a topic of continuously growing interest.
As more international treaties come into force, media coverage has
increased and many universities are now starting to conduct courses
specifically on climate change laws and policies. This textbook
provides a survey of the international law on climate change,
explaining how significant international agreements have sought to
promote compliance with general norms of international law. Benoit
Mayer provides an account of the rules agreed upon through lengthy
negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) and multiple other forums on mitigation,
geoengineering, adaptation, loss and damage, and international
support. The International Law on Climate Change is suitable for
undergraduate and graduate students studying climate, environmental
or international law. It is supported by a suite of online
resources, available at www.internationalclimatelaw.com, featuring
regularly updated lists of complementary materials, weblinks and
regular updates for each chapter.
This book provides the definitive reference point on all the issues
pertaining to dealing with the 'crisis of the rule of law' in the
European Union. Both Member State and EU levels are considered.
Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the concrete legal
bases and instruments that the EU may avail itself of for enforcing
rule of law, and the volume clearly demonstrates that a number of
legally sound ways of rule of law oversight are available.
Contributors are leading scholars who assess the potential role to
be played by the various bodies in the context of dealing with the
EU's rule of law imperfections.
Fresh water is one of man's most vital needs. The distribution of
water within river basins has a direct bearing on the organization
of water resources development to meet this ever-expanding need.
River basins, despite their very great diversity in other respects,
have one physical characteristic in common: each is a more or less
self-contained unit within whose bounds all the surface and part or
all of the ground waters form an interconnected, interdependent
system. This inter dependence has such far-reaching implications -
for pollution and flood control, apportionment of supply, relations
between upstream and downstream riparians, to mention only a few
examples - that the river basin has become almost universally
accepted (within the past 20 or 30 years at least) as the unit of
optimal water resources de velopment. Professor Teclaff's work
(which was originally submitted to the New York University School
of Law as a doctoral dissertation) is the first fully developed
response to the important resolution passed by the International
Law Association at its New York meeting in I958 recognizing the
legal nature of the international river basin. His study quite
properly, therefore, poses the question whether the adoption of the
river basin unit is a temporary phenomenon, reflecting the current
stage of technology and of administrative, economic, and legal
thought on water resources development, or whether the de
terminative influence of the river basin's physical unity which has
always operated in the past will continue to operate in the
future."
Can two-Chinas co-exist in the present world order? In a sense they
co-exist now-Free China in Taiwan (Formosa) and Communist China on
the mainland. Barring a military showdown, this situation could
remain for years to come. However, if we seek to put Free China and
Communist China on some permanent basis and give them interna
tional juridical status as abiding and separate entities, then we
are faced with serious difficulties. Free China and Communist China
co exist at present simply because neither can effectively alter
the situa tion. Each is backed by a power bloc that recognizes the
legal existence of only one of these political regimes. The United
States does not re cognize Peiping, even though it has conducted
meetings on the ambas sadorial level with the Regime for several
years. In a corresponding way, the Soviet bloc of nations refuses
to recognize Nationalist China. The situation is very similar to
that of two-Germanys, two-Koreas and two-Vietnams. To seek a
solution to this political impasse, it is suggested that a
"Sino-Formosan State" or some kind of "self-determination" by the
Formosans be instituted. This was first expressed by Chester Bowles
in his article "The China Problem Reconsidered" (Foreign Affairs,
April 1960), and supported by John Carter Vincent in his letter to
the editor of the New York Times (December 7,1961). The Conlon
Report of 1959 held the same posi. tion. Also, Arnold J.
In dem Band werden die voelkerrechtlichen Konsequenzen untersucht,
die sich aus der Grundung der Afrikanischen Union (AU) ergeben.
Aufbauend auf einer Analyse der organisationsrechtlichen und
programmatischen Neuerungen werden die militarischen
Eingriffsbefugnisse der AU uberpruft und ihr Verhaltnis zu den
Vereinten Nationen und regionalen Organisationen beleuchtet. So
kann der Autor nachweisen, dass die AU innovative strukturelle und
programmatische Entwicklungen angestossen und sich im Einklang mit
geltendem Voelkerrecht neu positioniert hat.
Mr. Asamoah's book is concerned with an area of growing importance
in the evolution of contemporary international law. The traditional
division of the sources of International law into custom and
treaties has already been supplemented in Article 38 of the Statute
of the International Court of Justice by the "general principles of
law re cognized by civilized nations" and-as subsidiary sources,
the judicial decisions and the teachings of highly qualified
publicists. But in order to cope with the diversity of
international law in our time, we have to look to a far greater
variety of sources of international law, and we shall have to
recognize that, in accordance with the many-sided character of
international law, these sources may vary greatly in intensity. In
recent years, Declaratory Resolutions of the General Assembly have
been much concerned with the general princi ples of international
law. Sometimes these Declarations are interpre tations of the
Charter and other instruments; sometimes they are evi dence of
state practice and a developing customary international law ;
sometimes they formulate new principles which, in some cases will
eventually lead to international treaties or new custom, or in
other cases will be accepted as authorative statements of
international legal principles, in circumstances where a formal
treaty cannot be attained. There are many reasons--often of an
internal character-which prevent the conclusion of a treaty but not
the acceptance of the principles contained in it.
The purpose of this book is to present to lawyers outside Sweden an
introduction to Private International Law as applied in Sweden. As
in the original Swedish version, (Internationell Privatriitt. Metod
och Material, Stockholm 1962), emphazis is put on the structure and
func tioning of conflict law, and the book does not attempt to
present a comprehensive survey of Swedish conflict rules. A resume
of these rules has, however, been included in the English edition.
The author wants to express his thanks to those who have helped to
make possible the publication of this book. Generous support was
given by the Swedish State Council for Social Science Research. Dr.
Stig Stromholm, Uppsala, prepared the translation into English of
the original Swedish text. Some alterations were subsequently made
in the, English version, including minor deletions of material
which had ap peared in the Swedish original and the addition of
some new material, including the whole of present chapter IV. The
English text as a whole was finally revised by the author with the
help, in the case of chapters I, IV, V and part of chapter II, of
Mrs. Helen Moats Eek (Ph. D., University of Chicago) and, in the
case of chapter III and part of chapter II, of Mr. Richard Cox (B.
Sc. Econ (Hons. ), F. R. Econ. Soc. ). Valua: ble assistance,
particularly in the preparation of the bibliography and the index,
was given also by Mr. Lars Lindgren (LL."
The first edition of Public Policies for Environmental Protection
contributed significantly to the incorporation of economic analysis
in the study of environmental policy. Fully revised to account for
changes in the institutional, legal, and regulatory framework of
environmental policy, the second edition features updated chapters
on the EPA and federal regulation, air and water pollution policy,
and hazardous and toxic substances. It includes entirely new
chapters on market-based environmental policies, global climate
change, solid waste, and, for the first time, coverage of the Safe
Drinking Water Act. Portney, Stavins, and their contributors
provide an invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers,
industry professionals, and journalists---anyone who needs
up-to-date information on U.S. environmental policy. With their
careful explanation of policy alternatives, the authors provide an
ideal book for students in courses about environmental economics or
environmental politics.
International Law Reports is the only publication in the world
wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English
of decisions of international courts and arbitrators as well as
judgments of national courts. Volume 163 reports on, amongst
others, the 2015 judgment of the High Court of India in AWAS 39423
Ireland v. Director-General of Civil Aviation and Spicejet Ltd, the
judgment of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights
in Jamaa and Others v. Italy, and the English Court of Appeal
judgment in Al-Jedda v. Secretary of State for Defence (No. 2).
(i) What is Martial Law? It is difficult to define martial law,
especially because of "the haze of uncertainty which envelops it. "
1 The expression is used to denote a variety of forms of government
or law, such as military law governing soldiers in the service of
the State, military govern ment in occupied areas, any kind of
arbitrary government in which the military arm plays a dominant
role, and the emergency ad ministration "which obtains in a
domestic community when the military authority carries on the
government, or at least some of its functions. " 2 It is in the
sense indicated last that martial law is discussed in the following
pages. In this sense, it is "the extension of military government
to domestic areas and civil persons in case of invasion or
rebellion. . . it is a suspension of normal civil government in
order to restore it and has civilians for its subjects and civil
areas for its loci of operation. " 3 Thus martial law has to be
clearly distinguished from military law and military government,
though 4 all these have common roots in history and logic. The term
'martial law' was originally applied to the law ad ministered by
the court of the Marshal and the Constable of England. There are
two theories about the source of the word 'martial' in the
expression. One theory is that the term 'martial 1 C. Fairman, The
Law of Martial Rule, page 19. 2 idem, page 30.
Civil Aviation has become a public utility service. SALVATORE
TOMASINO I} Although civil aviation has enjoyed unflagging public
interest since its birth in 1919, and even before that date, the
factors governing the development of civil aviation are
nevertheless not widely known. This applies not so much to
technical development as to the political and economic
considerations which ultimately determine the pattern of the
worldwide network of air routes. Whereas, prior to World War II,
civil aviation was regarded mainly as an instrument for political
penetration, with perhaps the Netherlands and its K.L.M.2) as a
striking exception, since 1945 civil aviation has come to be judged
more on its own merits, though it has remained primarily a
government matter. The political, strategic, economic, financial
and social aspeCts of civil aviation together constitute a field
which, particularly since World War II, has come to form the
subject-matter of a more or less independent branch of foreign
policy, designated 'by the term "international civil aviation
policy." In spite of the dominating factors of national prestige
and later of economic nationalism, States have nevertheless
directly and indirectly taken upon themselves a number of
obligations in the international field, thereby giving civil
aviation an international legal basis.
When is a norm peremptory? This is a question that has troubled
legal scholars throughout the development of modern international
law. In this work, Daniel Costelloe suggests - through an
examination of State practice and international materials - that it
is the legal consequences of a norm which distinguish it as
peremptory. This book sheds light on the legal consequences that
peremptory norms have, for instance, in the law of treaties,
international responsibility and state immunity. Unlike their
substance or identification, the consequences of peremptory norms
have remained under-studied. This book is the first specifically on
this topic and is essential reading for all scholars and
practitioners of public international law.
According to democratic theory the state is for man not man for the
state. This theory has been implemented by bills of rights in many
national constitutions giving the individual a legal opportunity to
redress abuses by his state. In Federal Consti tutions, however,
difficulties have been faced when central au thority seeks to
enforce the standards of the constitution against the legislation
and customs of the constituent states. The latter habitually
resist, proclaiming the virtues of horne rule and local
self-govemment, also supported by democratic theory. Thus the
opposition of man versus the state develops into a double op
position of man versus the state and the state versus the super
state. To what extent should the super-state take the part of man
demanding respect for human rights, or of the state demand ing
self-govemment, when the two conflict? The failure to solve this
problem precipitated the American Civil War and continues to
agitate American politics. Should the human right of equal
educational opportunities prevail over the "State's Right" of
autonomy in the organization of its schools? The same problem
appears in more virulent form in the efforts of the United Nations
to "promote respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms
for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion"
without "intervening in matters which are essentially within the
domestic jurisdiction of any state."
How does international law impact the behavior of states? This book
designed for students in multiple disciplines offers a
comprehensive, accessible introduction to the 'law of nations,'
detailing the evolution of state practice in response to an
ever-changing, diverse world. In this new edition of William
Slomanson's foundational text, the new authors, Professors Slagter
and Van Doorn, trace how states manage their sovereignty in myriad
ways, working through treaties, international organizations, and
international courts to secure their own as well as global
interests. With special emphasis on five key areas-human rights,
the use of force, human security and humanitarian intervention,
environmental protection, and economic relations-the authors
illustrate both the power and limits of international law to
provide structure and predictability on a globalized planet.
Real-world problem sets, annotated bibliographies, and a practical
guide to studying international law make this a text that students
and instructors alike will appreciate.
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