Sovereign Equality Among States

Author : Robert A. Klein
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1974-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487590963

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Sovereign equality among states by Robert A. Klein Pdf

Uncritical adherence to the concept of sovereign equality is a major stumbling block to the reorganization of the world community. This study is the first place to trace the origins of the wording of the concept as it appears in the UN charter, as well as its historical antecedents and philosophical foundations. Two contradictory ways of viewing sovereign states and maintaining order among them are discussed. According to one, states are abstract entities with a fictitious personality; according to this view, international affairs must be based on the concept of great-power primacy. The opposite view, brought to world attention at the Hague Peace Conference of 1907, endows states with human personalities and transfers to them the political principle of individual equality. The book develops the tension between the real world of international politics and the abstract world where opposing concepts abide.

Author : Ram Prakash Anand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Sovereignty
ISBN : 8178711419

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Sovereign Equality Of State In International Law by Ram Prakash Anand Pdf

Author : R. P. Anand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:26279326

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Sovereign Equality of States in International Law by R. P. Anand Pdf

Author : Robert A. Klein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1487589344

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Sovereign Equality Among States by Robert A. Klein Pdf

The rise of the concept that all nations are equal has transformed international relations in the twentieth century, setting radically new terms for the conduct of war and peace, for economic relations, and for the organization of international society. It is the author's belief that uncritical adherence to this concept is a major stumbling block to the reorganization of the world community. This book is the first study of the historical antecedents and philosophical foundations of the concept of sovereign equality. The older concept of great-power primacy pictures states as abstract entities with a fictitious personality. Increasingly challenged since Alexis de Tocqueville, it has been supplanted by the opposing concept of sovereign equality, which was brought to world attention at the Second hague Peace Conference in 1907.

Author : Jorge E. Viñuales
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 110848381X

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The UN Friendly Relations Declaration at 50 by Jorge E. Viñuales Pdf

The year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the United Nations Organisation, and the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Friendly Relations Declaration, which states the fundamental principles of the international legal order. In commemoration, some of the world's most prominent international law scholars from all continents have come together to offer a comprehensive study of the fundamental principles of international law. Each chapter in this volume reflects decades of experience, work and reflection by the most authoritative voices of the field. At the same time, the book is an invitation to end narrow specialisation and re-engage with the wider body of rules and processes that lie at the foundations of the international legal order.

Author : Ram Prakash Anand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Equality of states
ISBN : OCLC:220625859

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Sovereign Equality of States in International Law by Ram Prakash Anand Pdf

Author : Vaughan Lowe
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191576201

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International Law: A Very Short Introduction by Vaughan Lowe Pdf

Interest in international law has increased greatly over the past decade, largely because of its central place in discussions such as the Iraq War and Guantanamo, the World Trade Organisation, the anti-capitalist movement, the Kyoto Convention on climate change, and the apparent failure of the international system to deal with the situations in Palestine and Darfur, and the plights of refugees and illegal immigrants around the world. This Very Short Introduction explains what international law is, what its role in international society is, and how it operates. Vaughan Lowe examines what international law can and cannot do and what it is and what it isn't doing to make the world a better place. Focussing on the problems the world faces, Lowe uses terrorism, environmental change, poverty, and international violence to demonstrate the theories and practice of international law, and how the principles can be used for international co-operation.

Author : Bernard Gilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : International relations
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043877948

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The Conceptual System of Sovereign Equality by Bernard Gilson Pdf

Author : W. T. S. Stallybrass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429619328

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A Society of States by W. T. S. Stallybrass Pdf

The idea of a League of Nations has now taken firm root. The spade-work has been done. Leading statesmen of every country, in eloquent and glowing words, have proclaimed their adherence to the movement for its constitution after the war. It has extorted even the tribute paid to vice—hypocrisy. The seed has been sown. What manner of fruit it will bear will depend upon the knowledge and patience and care with which it is tended in its early growth.

Author : M. J. Balogun
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441983336

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Hegemony and Sovereign Equality by M. J. Balogun Pdf

The “interest contiguity theory,” which is the book’s centerpiece, holds that rather than a smooth, one-way cruise through history, humankind’s journey from the inception to the present has brought him/her face to face with broadly three types of interests. The first is the individual interest, which, strange as it may sound, tends to be internally contradictory. The second is society’s (or “national”) interest which, due to the clash of wills, is even more difficult than personal interest to harmonize. The third is the interest espoused to justify the establishment and maintenance of supranational institutions. Though conflicting, some interests are, due to their relative closeness (or contiguity), more easily reconcilable than others. In tracing the links between and among the three broad types of interests, the book begins with a brief philosophical discussion and then proceeds to examine the implications of human knowledge for individual liberty. Against the backdrop of the epistemological and ontological questions raised in the first chapter, the book examines the contending perspectives on the theory of the state, and in particular, the circumstances under which it is justified to place the interest of society over that of the individual. The focus of the fourth chapter is on the insertion of the supranational governance constant in the sovereignty equation, and on the conflict between idealist and realist, and between both and the Kantian explanations for the new order. The adequacy or otherwise of the conflicting explanations of the change from anarchy to a ‘new world order’ is the subject taken up in the succeeding chapters. Besides suggesting a new analytical tool for the study of politics and international relations, the contiguity theory offers statespersons new lenses with which to capture the seismic, perplexing and sometimes disconcerting changes unfolding before their eyes.

Author : Michael Byers,Georg Nolte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139436632

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United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law by Michael Byers,Georg Nolte Pdf

Successive hegemonic powers have shaped the foundations of international law. This book examines whether the predominance of the United States is leading to foundational change in the international legal system. A range of leading scholars in international law and international relations consider six foundational areas that could be undergoing change, including international community, sovereign equality, the law governing the use of force, and compliance. The authors demonstrate that the effects of US predominance on the foundations of international law are real, but also intensely complex. This complexity is due, in part, to a multitude of actors exercising influential roles. And it is also due to the continued vitality and remaining functionality of the international legal system itself. This system limits the influence of individual states, while stretching and bending in response to the changing geopolitics of our time.

Author : Ronald Dworkin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674008103

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Sovereign Virtue by Ronald Dworkin Pdf

Equality is the endangered species of political ideals. Even left-of-center politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens be equal in any dimension. In his new book Ronald Dworkin insists, to the contrary, that equality is the indispensable virtue of democratic sovereignty. A legitimate government must treat all its citizens as equals, that is, with equal respect and concern, and, since the economic distribution that any society achieves is mainly the consequence of its system of law and policy, that requirement imposes serious egalitarian constraints on that distribution. What distribution of a nation's wealth is demanded by equal concern for all? Dworkin draws upon two fundamental humanist principles--first, it is of equal objective importance that all human lives flourish, and second, each person is responsible for defining and achieving the flourishing of his or her own life--to ground his well-known thesis that true equality means equality in the value of the resources that each person commands, not in the success he or she achieves. Equality, freedom, and individual responsibility are therefore not in conflict, but flow from and into one another as facets of the same humanist conception of life and politics. Since no abstract political theory can be understood except in the context of actual and complex political issues, Dworkin develops his thesis by applying it to heated contemporary controversies about the distribution of health care, unemployment benefits, campaign finance reform, affirmative action, assisted suicide, and genetic engineering.

Author : International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 0889369631

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The Responsibility to Protect by International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty,International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Responsibility to Protect: Research, bibliography, background. Supplementary volume to the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

Author : Christine Chinkin,Mary Kaldor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107171213

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International Law and New Wars by Christine Chinkin,Mary Kaldor Pdf

Examines the difficulties in applying international law to recent armed conflicts known as 'new wars'.

Author : Brad Roth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195342666

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Sovereign Equality and Moral Disagreement by Brad Roth Pdf

The boundaries of the international order's pluralism remain variable, and relative convergences in both values and interests over time have led to the broadening of exceptions to sovereign prerogative, such as jus cogens, universal jurisdiction, and humanitarian intervention. With little prospect of these long term trends diminishing in either momentum or scope, this book weighs in to consider the enduring importance of sovereignty.