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international lawBody of rules generally accepted as governing the relations between countries, pioneered by Hugo Grotius, especially in matters of human rights, territory, and war. Neither the League of Nations nor the United Nations proved able to enforce international law, successes being achieved only when the law coincided with the aims of a predominant major power - for example, in the Korean War. The scope of the law is now extended to space - for example, the 1967 treaty that (among other things) banned nuclear weapons from space. |
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| The 160-page Iraq Study Group report will fail because it does not address human rights and international law (except in describing the background of its authors--for example, Vernon "Jordan practiced general, corporate, legislative, and international law in Washington, DC"). Brill Academic Publishers (Boston, MA) has merged two of its legal journals, "Non-State Actors and International Law," launched in 2001, and the "International Law Forum du droit international," established in 1999, to launch the "International Community Law Review," a quarterly title that addresses all aspects of international law and the international community. Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory Of International Law by China Mieville is a sharp and deftly presented leftist critique of international law from the sixteenth century to the present day. |
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