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  • Attorney

    Introduction to Attorney Attorney, in law, any person authorized by another to represent him or her. An agent who has been granted express authority to bind his or her principal is called an attorney in fact. Such authority is usually granted by a written instrument called a power of […]

  • Attorney

    Introduction to Attorney Attorney, in law, any person authorized by another to represent him or her. An agent who has been granted express authority to bind his or her principal is called an attorney in fact. Such authority is usually granted by a written instrument called a power of […]

  • League of Nations

    The League of Nations was the ill-fated predecessor of the United Nations. Origins To Alexander of Russia's scheme of a Holy Alliance we need only briefly allude. Though admirable in intention it was rejected as "sublime nonsense and mysticism” by Castlereagh, and it eventually […]

  • League of Nations

    The League of Nations was the ill-fated predecessor of the United Nations. Origins To Alexander of Russia's scheme of a Holy Alliance we need only briefly allude. Though admirable in intention it was rejected as "sublime nonsense and mysticism” by Castlereagh, and it eventually […]

  • Biological Weapons

    Characteristics of Terrorist Attacks: Chemical and Biological Weapons Introduction to Biological Weapons Concern over terrorist use of chemical and biological weapons increased after the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway and the discovery in 2001 of anthrax spores mailed in the […]

  • Biological Weapons

    Characteristics of Terrorist Attacks: Chemical and Biological Weapons Introduction to Biological Weapons Concern over terrorist use of chemical and biological weapons increased after the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway and the discovery in 2001 of anthrax spores mailed in the […]

  • Ocean Areas

    Ocean Areas Law of the Sea UNCLOS III: Divisions of Ocean Areas Note: for information on United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea III (UNCLOS III), please see here. By Daniel Hollis. One of the most powerful features of UNCLOS is that it settled the question of the extent of national sovereignty over the…

  • International Alliances

    International Alliances ALLIANCES AND SUPERPOWER DOMINANCE, 1964-1968 The second half of the 1960s was a time of parallel crises for the two military alliances, NATO and the Warsaw Pact, in both of which superpower dominance was at issue. For the first time since the onset of the Cold War, the loosening of the Kremlin leadership…

  • League of Nations Failure

    League of Nations Failure Even before its first meeting, the League of Nations suffered what some historians have characterized as a death blow: the U.S. rejection of the Treaty of Versailles and with it, the League of Nations. A variety of factors led to the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the treaty, among them Woodrow Wilson’s…

  • Cyberspace Governance

    Governance in Cyberspace In his book “Cyberthreats and International Law” (Eleven International Publishing, 2012), Georg Kerschischnig wrote: “Most governments have long been underestimating the power vested within ICT, in particular the Internet. This put the private sector and civil society in the driver’s seat, which – with slackened reins – promoted technical innovation and picked…

  • World Court Digest

    World Court Digest Introduction This Digest, produced by the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law, is a systematic arrangement of the views on questions of international law as expressed in the judgments, advisory opinions, and orders of the International Court of Justice, including separate opinions of individual judges. Volumes 1 and 2…

  • International Treaties

    International Treaties in general Resources See Also Popular Treaties Topics Treaties of the United Nations (UN) Types of Treaties International Treaties Famous Treaties Law of Treaties Numbered Treaties

  • Founding Treaties

    Treaties (Founding Treaties) and the Treaties of the European Union Description of Treaties (Founding Treaties) provided by the European Union Commission: The establishment of the first "Community", the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), was the starting point for over fifty […]

  • Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy

    Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy Table of Contents Chronology of American Foreign Policy, 1607-2001 / Richard Dean Burns and Louise B. Ketz — African Americans / Brenda Gayle Plummer — Alliances, Coalitions, and Ententes / Warren F. Kimball — Ambassadors, Executive Agents, and Special Representatives / Kenneth J. Grieb — Anti-Imperialism / Robert Buzzanco —…

  • Peaceful Settlement of Disputes in International Organizations

    Peaceful Settlement of Disputes in International Organizations Note: this entry is based on the article, authored by Alain Pellet, “Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes” of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Whether expressly or in practice, all regional international organizations offer to their Member States some kind of mechanism for the peaceful settlement…