Presents a treatment of statehood in the field of international law. This book tackles problems and questions such as the international disposition of territory in Kosovo and East Timor, claims for secession in Chechnya and Quebec, and the alleged category of 'failed States, ' often misleadingly applied to Somalia and Afghanistan.
A manual of law and practice relating to the 14 remaining British overseas territories: Anguilla; Bermuda; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; Cayman Islands; Falkland Islands; Gibraltar; Montserrat; Pitcairn Islands; St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands; and, more.
This book examines whether anticipatory action in self-defense is part of customary international law and, if so, under what conditions. It considers such events as the Six-Day War, the Israeli bombing of an Iraqi reactor and the US invasion of Iraq.