Contents: Introduction -- Part 1 Preliminary Topics :The sources of international law -- The relations of international and national law -- Part 11: Personality and recognition -- Subjects of international law -- Creation and incidence of stateshood -- Recognition of states and governments -- International organisations -- Part 111: Territorial Soverienty -- Forms of governmental authority authority over territory -- Acquisition and transfer of territorial sovereignty -- Status of territory : Furthur problems -- Part IV: Law of the sea -- The territorial sea and other maritime zones -- Maritime delimitation and associated questions -- Maritime transit and the regime of the high seas -- Part V -- The environment and natural resources -- Common spaces and cooperation in the use of natural resourses -- Legal aspects of the environment -- The law of treaties -- Dplomatic and consular relations -- unilateral acts.acquiscence and estgoppel -- Succession to rights and duties -- Part VII State Jurisdiction -- Sovereingty and equality of states.