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.
Confronting Cyberespionage Under International Law
1st Edition
By Oğuz Pehlivan
June 30, 2020
We have witnessed a digital revolution that affects the dynamics of existing traditional social, economic, political and legal systems. This revolution has transformed espionage and its features, such as its purpose and targets, methods and means, and actors and incidents, which paves the way for ...
Drug Control and International Law
1st Edition
By Daniel Wisehart
June 30, 2020
This book provides for an extensive legal analysis of the international drug control system in light of the growing challenges and criticism that this system faces. In the current debate on global drug policy, the central pillars of the international drug control system – the UN Drug Conventions as...
International Investment Law and Globalization: Foreign Investment, Responsibilities and Intergovernmental Organizations
1st Edition
By Jean-Michel Marcoux
June 30, 2020
In a context of neoliberal globalization, have the processes of elaboration and implementation of foreign investors' responsibilities by intergovernmental organizations reached the realm of legality? Using an analytical framework and a methodology that combines international law with international ...
Russian Discourses on International Law: Sociological and Philosophical Phenomenon
1st Edition
By P. Sean Morris
June 30, 2020
A number of recent events in the last decade have renewed interest in Russian discourses on international law. This book evaluates and presents a contemporary analysis of Russian discourses on international law from various perspectives, including sociological, theoretical, political, and ...
Transnational Terrorist Groups and International Criminal Law
1st Edition
By Anna Marie Brennan
June 30, 2020
Attacks by network-based transnational terrorist groups cause on average 25,000 deaths every year worldwide, with the law enforcement agencies of some states facing many challenges in bringing those responsible to justice. Despite various attempts to codify the law on transnational terrorism since ...
Fighting and Victimhood in International Criminal Law
1st Edition
By Joanna Nicholson
December 12, 2019
The act of fighting or being a fighter has certain consequences in international law. The most obvious example can be found in international humanitarian law, where a distinction is drawn between fighters and civilians, with fighters being military objectives and civilians being protected from ...
Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks
1st Edition
Edited
By Dianne Otto
December 12, 2019
This ground-breaking collection reflects the growing momentum of interest in the international legal community in meshing the insights of queer legal theory with those critical theories that have a much longer genealogy – notably postcolonial and feminist analyses. Beyond the push in the human ...
The Relationship between Human Security Discourse and International Law: A Principled Approach
1st Edition
By Shireen Daft
December 12, 2019
The concept of human security has emerged in international relations and policy as an idea which not only seeks to relocate the focus of international society on the individual, but also challenges the current priorities of the international community. In particular it places emphasis on promoting ...
The UN Security Council and Domestic Actors: Distance in international law
1st Edition
By Machiko Kanetake
December 12, 2019
This book analyses the exercise of authority by the UN Security Council and its subsidiary organs over individuals. The UN Security Council was created in 1945 as an outcome of World War II under the predominant assumption that it exercises its authority against states. Under this assumption, the ...
China, Cultural Heritage, and International Law
1st Edition
By Hui Zhong
December 10, 2019
China is a country that is rich in antiquities, but it is also a victim of looting that occurred during the period from the First Opium War to the end of the Japanese Occupation (1840–1945) when innumerable cultural objects were lost overseas. The Chinese Government insists on asserting its ...
Regionalism in International Law
1st Edition
By Ján Klučka
December 10, 2019
International Law: Aspects of Regionalism evaluates regionalism in its various relationships and forms with respect to international law, as well as the importance and duties of international law in respect to the establishment and functioning of various forms of regional groups. A great deal of ...
The International Criminal Court and Nigeria: Implementing the Complementarity Principle of the Rome Statute
1st Edition
By Muyiwa Adigun
December 10, 2019
If Nigeria fails to prosecute the crimes recognised under the Rome Statute, then the International Criminal Court (ICC) will intervene. The ICC is only expected to complement the criminal justice system in Nigeria and is not a court of first instance, but one of last resort. This is what is known ...