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• Title:Neither justice nor order : reflections on the state of the Law of Nations / Frans A.M. Alting von Geusau.
  
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• Author/Creator:Alting von Geusau, Frans Alphons Maria, 1933- author.
  
• Published/Created:[Nijmegen] : Wolf Legal Publishers, 2017.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KZ3410 .A445 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:International law.
  
• Edition:Third edition.
  
• Description:333 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Footprints of the twentieth century ; v. 5.
  
• Summary:This fifth and final volume offers a critical assessment of the state of the law of nations. In the twenty first century the world needs true global law anchored in the dignity of the human person rather than weak international law built on the interests of major sovereign states. One hundred years after the outbreak of the Great or First World War in 1914 and twenty-five years after the peaceful end of the Cold War in 1989, little appears to have been learnt from the scale of disasters that befell the world between the assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 and the annexation of Sebastopol in 2014.0The failure to learn from history largely comes from unconverted political leaders and ideologies of progress. The birth of modern international law, assumed to have taken place in 1648, was no moment of progress, nor was the Congress of Vienna in 1815. The peace of Westphalia reduced the law of nations to interstate law.0Moreover, today?s dismal record of major sovereign powers, nicknamed the?international community?, with such issues as human rights, the use of force, the abolition of nuclear weapons and peace in the Middle-East proofs that for justice and order a transition from international law to global law needs to be realized.0Throughout the book one finds lightening examples of persons who, by their courage and dedication, could make the difference. Among them are Henri Dunant, Ruth Klüger, Andrei Sacharov, Nelson Mandela and Pope John-Paul II.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9789462404205 paperback
  9462404208 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Justice, Diversity And The Rule Of Law
  Iustitia est constans et perpetua voluntas ius suum cuique tribuens
  Justice is a Virtue
  Justice and Charity
  Justice and Natural Law
  Natural Law
  Natural Law, Ius Gentium, International Law
  Religious, Cultural And National Diversity
  Ancient Roots
  Contemporary Problems
  Fundamental Contradictions
  Conflicting Claims
  Supremacy or the Rule of Law
  Democracies based on the rule of Law
  Sources of the Rule of Law
  For Further Reflection
  Overcoming Legal Positivism
  Activating Civil Society
  Promoting Freedom of Religion
  Defining a new Ius Gentium
  ch. 2 Reflections On The History Of International Law
  History Of Growth And Progress?
  Respect for law
  Folly of War
  Troy
  Turbulent History Of The Law Of Nations
  End of the Ancient World
  Three types of relations
  new era
  Wars over people, peace between sovereigns and reigning families
  Revolution and War
  Rites of Peace: the Congress of Vienna
  Illusions
  Wars Of The Nineteenth Century
  Dreams, Rise and fall of national empires
  Prussia and (North) German Unification
  Italian Unification
  Eastern Question
  Victimization of International Law
  Outbreak Of The Great War One Hundred Years Ago
  Individual Liability in addition to State Responsibility?
  After the Second World War
  ch. 3 International Law And Human Dignity
  Concept Of Human Dignity
  Whose Dignity?
  Dispositive Role in International Law?
  Those Who Made The Difference
  Mahatma Gandhi (1869
  1948)
  Martin Luther King (1929
  1968)
  Andrei D. Sakharov (1921
  1989)
  Nelson Mandela (1918
  2013)
  Aung San Suu Kyi (1945
  )
  Human Dignity And Freedom Of Religion
  Where the Catholic Church made the difference
  Fragility of Freedom of Religion
  Dealing with Persecution and Religious Freedom
  ch. 4 International Law And The Common Good
  Common Standard Of Achievement
  Content and structure of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  Bartolome de Las Casas, "That Apostle of America"
  Deconstruction
  ch. 5 International Law And State Sovereignty
  Jean Bodin And The Doctrine Of State Sovereignty
  Further Evolution of the Concept of Sovereignty
  State Sovereignty In The Work Of Pieter Kooijmans
  Divine Origin of Legal Norms
  World Community as a Legal Community
  Sovereignty within Its own Sphere, but not above the Law
  War, Peace and Disarmament
  Human Rights and State Sovereignty
  Religion and Law in Pieter Kooijmans' Work
  Principle Of Sovereign Equality
  ch. 6 International Law And The Use Of Force
  Twentieth Century War (1914
  1990)
  War and Technology
  Restraining the Use of Force
  Enforcement Measures and the Cold War
  Avoiding direct confrontation
  Cold War and Decolonization
  South Africa
  Peaceful Revolution: The End Of The Twentieth Century War
  Successful in its own terms
  Law And Force In The New Order: Any Difference?
  War on Terrorism
  Disarmament And War Prevention
  In recent History
  Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War
  Post-1989 Era: Any function left for nuclear deterrence?
  In the Light of History
  Nuclear weapons must be abolished
  Wars And Weapons
  ch. 7 Situation In The Middle-East
  From the Eastern Question to the Situation in the Middle-East
  Partition, Self-determination and Democracy
  Cynical and shameless
  Dead-end street
  Armageddon
  Breaking Away Towards Peace?
  Peace Treaty Between Egypt and Israel
  Agreements Between Israel And The PLO
  Mutual recognition
  Two stages
  Firm time limits
  first stage: two sub-stages
  Nature of the Agreements between Israel and the PLO
  Permanent Status Negotiations
  Treaty of Peace between Israel and Jordan
  Plowing The Sea
  Learning from history?
  ch. 8 Art Of Diplomacy
  Methods Of Diplomacy
  Parliamentary Diplomacy
  Cooperative Diplomacy
  Diplomacy Of Peaceful Cooperation
  Art Of Diplomacy
  ch. 9 International Law And The Pursuit Of Justice
  Status Quo
  Rules imposed on other States
  Sovereign Equality or Human Dignity?
  ch. 10 Footprints Of The Twentieth Century
  American Century
  War and Peace
  Christian Heritage of Western Civilization.