Routledge Research in International Law
About the Book Series
The series offers a space for new and emerging scholars of international law to publish original arguments, as well as presenting alternative perspectives from more established names in international legal research. Works cover both the theory and practice of international law, presenting innovative analyses of the nature and state of international law itself as well as more specific studies within particular disciplines. The series will explore topics such as the changes to the international legal order, the processes of law-making and law-enforcement, as well as the range of actors in public international law. The books will take a variety of different methodological approaches to the subject including interdisciplinary, critical legal studies, feminist, and Third World approaches, as well as the sociology of international law. Looking at the past, present and future of international law the series reflects the current vitality and diversity of international legal scholarship.
The Future of International Courts: Regional, Institutional and Procedural Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Avidan Kent, Nikos Skoutaris, Jamie Trinidad
December 13, 2021
The end of World War II marked the beginning of a new golden era in international law. Treaties and international organisations proliferated at an unprecedented rate, and many courts and tribunals were established with a view to ensuring the smooth operation of this new universe of international ...
The Responsibility to Protect in Libya and Syria: Mass Atrocities, Human Protection, and International Law
1st Edition
By Yasmine Nahlawi
December 13, 2021
This book offers a novel and contemporary examination of the ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) doctrine from an international legal perspective and analyses how the doctrine was applied within the Libyan and Syrian conflicts as two recent and highly significant R2P cases.The book dissects each of ...
The Responsibility to Protect in International Law: Philosophical Investigations
1st Edition
By Natalie Oman
June 30, 2021
This book tracks the development of the emerging international legal principle of a responsibility to protect over the past two decades. It contrasts the influential version of the principle introduced by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty in 2001 with subsequent ...
Armed Conflict and Forcible Displacement: Individual Rights under International Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Elena Katselli Proukaki
August 14, 2020
This book addresses the involuntary and arbitrary displacement of individuals resulting from armed conflict and gross human rights violations. It shows that forcible displacement constitutes a serious violation of international law and of fundamental community interests. Armed Conflict and ...
China's One Belt One Road Initiative and Private International Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit, Sai Ramani Garimella
August 14, 2020
The concept of the One Belt One Road initiative (OBOR) was raised by the President of the People’s Republic of China in October 2013. The OBOR comprises the ‘Silk Road Economic Belt’ and the ‘21st Century Maritime Silk Road’, encompassing over 60 countries from Asia to Europe via Southeast Asia, ...
Demilitarization and International Law in Context: The Åland Islands
1st Edition
By Sia Åkermark, Saila Heinikoski, Pirjo Kleemola-Juntunen
August 14, 2020
The demilitarisation and neutralisation of the Åland Islands is a confirmation of, and an exception to, the collective security system in present-day international affairs. Its core idea is that there is no need for military presence in the territory of the islands and that they are to be kept out ...
International Criminal Law and Sexual Violence against Women: The Interpretation of Gender in the Contemporary International Criminal Trial
1st Edition
By Daniela Nadj
August 14, 2020
This book explores the prosecution of wartime sexual violence in international criminal law and asks what the juridicalisation of gender-based violence signifies for women. The book explores the portrayal of the various gendered identities that surface in armed conflict and it asks whether the law ...
Peacemaking, Religious Belief and the Rule of Law: The Struggle between Dictatorship and Democracy in Syria and Beyond
1st Edition
By Paul J. Zwier
August 14, 2020
This book offers a new way of understanding the role of the mediator in teaching parties the interrelationship between sustainable peace, forgiveness, and international justice. It argues that the arrival of social media presents new opportunities for reaching sustainable peace agreements, through ...
Regional Developmentalism through Law: Establishing an African Economic Community
1st Edition
By Jonathan Bashi Rudahindwa
August 14, 2020
Offering a study of regionalism in Africa and investigating the ways in which law can be used to address the issues raised by regional processes on the continent, this book examines the African Economic Community, considering that it has been entrusted to coordinate and to harmonize policies ...
State Interest and the Sources of International Law: Doctrine, Morality, and Non-Treaty Law
1st Edition
By Markus P. Beham
August 14, 2020
This book addresses the disparity between positive non-treaty law and its scholarly assessment in the area of moral concepts, understood as altruistic as opposed to reciprocal legal obligations. It shows how scholars are generously willing to assert the existence of a rule of international law, ...
The Rule of Unwritten International Law: Customary Law, General Principles, and World Order
1st Edition
By Peter G. Staubach
August 14, 2020
This book seeks to re-appreciate the concept of customary international law as a form of spontaneous societal self-organisation, and to develop the methodological consequences that ensue from this conception for the practice of its application. In pursuing this aim, the author draws from three ...
Unilateral Acts: A History of a Legal Doctrine
1st Edition
By Betina Kuzmarov
August 14, 2020
We are in a moment where peoples and states are interested, directly or indirectly, in asserting their "national interest," unilaterally if necessary. In the White House, the national security policy is premised on "America First," while Catalans and Iraqi Kurds have taken steps to unilaterally ...