Treaties category: 216 books
China's Unequal Treaties
Narrating National History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
This study, based on primary sources, deals with the linguistic development and polemical uses of the expression Unequal Treaties, which refers to the treaties China signed between 1842 and 1946. Although this expression has occupied a central position in both Chinese collective memory and Chinese...
by Carlos Closa
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Since its inception, the European Union (EU) has revised its foundational treaties several times, resulting in national ratification processes involving different actors, with varying success. This book focuses on the politics of ratification of EU Treaties and reviews the processes of ratification...
The Major International Treaties of the Twentieth Century
A History and Guide with Texts
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2007
This definitive work surveys the history of treaty-making in the 20th century, providing the texts of all the major treaties that either continue in force today, or are of historical importance.
Truly global in scope and completely up-to-date, this book covers treaties of all kinds, from political...
Writing Indian Nations
Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
In the early years of the republic, the United States government negotiated with Indian nations because it could not afford protracted wars politically, militarily, or economically. Maureen Konkle argues that by depending on treaties, which rest on the equal standing of all signatories, Europeans...
Nation to Nation
Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indians explores the promises, diplomacy, and betrayals involved in treaties and treaty making between the United States government and Native Nations. One side sought to own the riches of North America and the other struggled to hold...
The Death of Treaty Supremacy
An Invisible Constitutional Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
This book provides the first detailed history of the Constitution's treaty supremacy rule. It describes a process of invisible constitutional change. The traditional supremacy rule provided that all treaties supersede conflicting state laws; it precluded state governments from violating U.S. treaty...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The centrality of treaties to the international legal system requires little emphasis. Not only is the treaty a source of law that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is bound to apply when resolving international disputes, but it is also the medium through which the vast preponderance of international...
by Eric Posner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Countries solemnly intone their commitment to human rights, and they ratify endless international treaties and conventions designed to signal that commitment. At the same time, there has been no marked decrease in human rights violations, even as the language of human rights has become the dominant...
Bridges Over Water
Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation and Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Bridges over Water places the study of transboundary water conflicts, negotiation, and cooperation in the context of various disciplines, such as international relations, international law, international negotiations, and economics. It demonstrates their application, using various quantitative approaches,...
The Brussels and North Atlantic Treaties, 1947-1949
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series I, Volume X
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
This volume documents the drafting, negotiation and signature of the treaty that has been the cornerstone of European defence for the past sixty-five years: the North Atlantic Treaty signed in April 1949.
The story begins at the end of 1947, when the British Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin,...
Strategic Cooperation
Overcoming the Barriers of Global Anarchy
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Power inequalities and mistrust have characterized many interstate relationships. Yet most international relations theories do not take into account power and mistrust when explaining cooperation. While some scholars argue that power relations inhibit cooperation between states, other scholars expect...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Trans-boundary rivers between Nepal and India have long signified both cooperation and dispute. Though both countries are highly interested in mutual cooperation for the development of the shared rivers, their attempt to bring things to a successful solution has been hampered by debate. Several treaties...
Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts
Enabling Conditions for Negotiating Contingent Resolutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
‘Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts’ seeks to understand transboundary water governance as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities. To address those conditions and leverage the possibilities it introduces the concept of enabling conditions as a pragmatic way to identify...
Refugees, Women, and Weapons
International Norm Adoption and Compliance in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
In a world dominated by considerations of material and security threats, Japan provides a fascinating case for why, and under what conditions, a state would choose to adopt international norms and laws that are seemingly in direct conflict with its domestic norms. Approaching compliance from within...