Nuclear Weapons and Contemporary International Law : Second Revised Edition /

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Main Authors: McWhinney, Edward (Author), Singh, Nagendra (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Nijhoff, 1988.

Series: Developments in International Law ; 11.
International Law - Book Archive pre-2000.

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Call Number: JX5133.A7

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Chapter 1 The Nature of the Laws of War /
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  • Chapter 2 The Effect of Nuclear Weapons /
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  • Chapter 3 Conventional Arms and Nuclear Weapons /
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  • Chapter 4 The Laws of War /
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  • Chapter 5 Military Survival, Self-Preservation and Self-Defence /
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  • Chapter 6 The Commencement of Hostilities /
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  • Chapter 7 Land Warfare and Prohibited Weapons and Practices /
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  • Chapter 8 Naval Warfare and Nuclear Weapons /
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  • Chapter 9 Air Warfare and Nuclear Weapons /
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  • Chapter 10 The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Nuclear Weapons /
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  • Chapter 11 The Possible Legal Use of Nuclear Weapons /
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  • Chapter 12 Nuclear Weapons and International Law Doctrines /
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  • Chapter 13 An Era of Transition in International Relations and International Law /
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  • Chapter 14 Genesis of a Special International Law of Disarmament: Relation to General International Law /
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  • Chapter 15 Contemporary Challenges to 'Classical' International Law: New Sources of International Law, Law-As-Fact /
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  • Chapter 16 International Law as Process: Holistic Solutions Versus Pragmatic, Empirical, Problem-Oriented Methods /
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  • Chapter 17 The Larger East-West Détente Process: The International Law of Peaceful Coexistence (Friendly Relations) /
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  • Chapter 18 Nuclear Disarmament and the Détente Process: Genesis of the Step-by-Step Approach /
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  • Chapter 19 The Moscow Partial Test Ban Treaty (Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, 5 August 1963) /
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  • Chapter 20 The Outer Space Treaty (Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, 27 January 1967) /
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  • Chapter 21 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1 July 1968) /
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  • Chapter 22 The Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons on the Sea-Bed and Ocean Floor, 1971 /
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  • Chapter 23 Incremental Advances Throught the Politic of Little Steps /
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  • Chapter 24 SALT I: The ABM Treaty, and the Interim Agreement, 1972 /
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  • Chapter 25 The Attempted Breakthrough of SALT II, 1974-1979 /
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  • Chapter 26 The Executive - Governmental Route: The 'Politic of Mutual Example' /
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  • Chapter 27 The Parliamentary Route: Resolutions of the U.N. General Assembly /
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  • Chapter 28 The International Judicial Route: The International Court of Justice /
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  • Chapter 29 The National Judicial Route: Litigation Before National Supreme Courts /
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  • Chapter 30 State of the Doctrines: A Priori Definitions of Illegality of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Weapons User /
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  • Chapter 31 Operational Definitions of Illegality of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Weapons User: Illegality in the Political Context /
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  • Chapter 32 Breakdown in the SALT Process and the Larger East-West Détente /
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  • Chapter 33 U.S. Administration's Policy Rationale for S.D.I. /
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  • Chapter 34 U.S. Administration's Charges of Soviet Non-Compliance with the A.B.M. Treaty, 1972 /
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  • Chapter 35 U.S. Administration's Legal Justification of S.D.I. /
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  • Chapter 36 Legal Critique of the U.S. Administration's Legal Justification of S.D.I. /
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  • Chapter 37 Relevance of Other International Treaties to S.D.I. /
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  • Chapter 38 Conclusions /
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  • Chapter 39 International Legal Constraints on the U.S. Administration's S.D.I. Programme /
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  • Chapter 40 Evolution and Change in Nuclear Disarmament Law-Making Modes: Dominance of Doctrines in the Early Post-War Period /
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  • Chapter 41 The Era of Détente: Emergence of the Contemporary East-West Treaty, and the East-West Summit Meeting /
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  • Chapter 42 The Decline of Détente: Filling the Law-Making Gap as to Nuclear Disarmament /
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  • Chapter 43 The Crisis of Détente and the Disarmament Process of the Mid-1980s /
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  • Chapter 44 The Law-in-Books and the Law-in-Action: Legally Constraining the Two Superpowers Through Nuclear Disarmament Norms /
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  • Chapter 45 Reviving the Détente and Disarmament Process in an Era of Transition and Fundamental Change /
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  • Chapter 46 Détente Resurrected?: The Shevardnadze-Shultz 'Agreement in Principle', 18 September 1987 /
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  • Chapter 47 The Gorbachev-Reagan Washington Summit Meeting, and the INF Treaty, 8 December 1987 /
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  • Chapter 48 The Next Big Step: A Strategic Offensive Arms (Long-Range Missiles) Treaty, and Beyond /
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  • Back Matter.