International Incidents
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International Incidents

The Law That Counts in World Politics

  1. 292 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

International Incidents

The Law That Counts in World Politics

About this book

What law "counts" in international politics? Does any? How are effective international norms established? This provocative book introduces a new way of looking at these questions. It shows that many international standards of acceptable conduct derive far less from adjudications, statutes, or treaties and far more from what is found to be acceptable in the conflicts that we today call international incidents. The contributors demonstrate how law that counts has been developed, modified, and terminated in a variety of dramatic international incidents: the Cosmos 954 satellite accident, the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, the Harrods bombing, the Argentine invasion of the Falklands/Las Malvinas, the incursions of foreign submarines into Swedish waters, the Soviet gas pipeline problem, the situation in Lebanon, and the Gulf of Sidra incident. This volume is a first, experimental effort at establishing a format for a new and more relevant kind of international political and legal analysis.

Originally published in 1988.

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Yes, you can access International Incidents by W. Michael Reisman, Andrew R. Willard, W. Michael Reisman,Andrew R. Willard, W. Reisman, Andrew Willard in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Law & International Law. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface and Acknowledgments
  4. List of Contributors
  5. 1. International Incidents: Introduction to a New Genre in the Study of International Law
  6. 2. Incidents: An Essay in Method
  7. 3. Foreign Submarines in Swedish Waters: The Erosion of an International Norm
  8. 4. Cosmos 954: The International Law of Satellite Accidents
  9. 5. The Soviet Gas Pipeline Incident: Extension of Collective Security Responsibilities to Peacetime Commercial Trade
  10. 6. The Argentine Invasion of the Falklands: International Norms of Signaling
  11. 7. The War in Lebanon: The Waxing and Waning of International Norms
  12. 8. The Gulf of Sidra Incident of 1981: The Lawfulness of Peacetime Aerial Engagements
  13. 9. The Shooting of Korean Air Lines Flight 007: Responses to Unauthorized Aerial Incursions
  14. 10. The Bombing of Harrods: Norms Against Civilian Targeting
  15. 11. The Study of Incidents: Epilogue and Prologue
  16. Index