International incidents : the law that counts in world politics /

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Imprint:Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1988]
©1988
Description:1 online resource (292 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11276947
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Other authors / contributors:Reisman, W. Michael (William Michael), 1939- editor.
Willard, Andrew R., editor.
Yale Law School, contributor.
ISBN:9781400859481
1400859484
069107772X
0691022801
9780691077727
9780691022802
0691606005
9780691606002
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Notes:Papers originally presented at the Yale Law School Spring 1984 seminar The incident as a decision unit in international law.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
Print version record.
Summary: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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Other form:Print version: International incidents : the law that counts in world politics. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1988] xii, 278 pages ; 23 cm 9780691606002
Standard no.:10.1515/9781400859481