International Law in a Multipolar World

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International Law in a Multipolar World
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Introduction: Matthew Happold
1. The Security Council, the security imperative and international law: Nigel D. White
2. Ascertaining inchoate threats to international peace and security: Isobel Roele
3. Nuclear non-proliferation and the UN Security Council in a multipolar world: can international law protect states from the Security Council?: Daniel H. Joyner
4. Using force in international affairs: the role of international law in contemporary international politics : Dominika Švarc
5. Russia and competing spheres of influence: the case of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia: James Summers
6. Hegemony, multipolarity and the system of international law: Alexander Orakhelashvili
7. Orthodox generalists and political activists in international legal scholarship: Jörg Kammerhofer
8. Basic rights and global justice: the problem of international coercion: Silviya Lechner
9. The duality of the legitimacy of global actors in the international legal order: Jean d’Aspremont and Eric de Brabandere
10. Democracy as a global norm: has it finally emerged?: Christian Pippan
11. International law and East Asia’s regional order: the strengthening of a fundamental institution: Pablo Pareja-Alcaraz
12. Post-Soviet states and international law in a multipolar world: Rima Tkatova
13. Universality, the UN and the Organization of the Islamic Conference: single, complementary or competing legal orders?: Katja Samuel
14. The development of self-contained regimes as an obstacle to UN global governance: Carmen Draghici
15. The relationship between Community law and international law after Kadi: did the ECJ slam the door on effective multilateralism?: Aurel Sari
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