TY - BOOK AU - Reisman, W. Michael AU - Arsanjani, Mahnoush H. AU - Weissner, Siegfried TI - International law in contemporary perspective. SN - 1587786532 AV - KZ1242.5.I58 PY - 2004/// CY - New York, N.Y., [St. Paul, Minn.] PB - Foundation Press, Thomson/West KW - International law KW - Cases N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references (p. [ix]-xiii) and index; Contents: The Constitutive process in the global community context -- How shall we conceive international law -- How is international law made and applied -- The Interaction between international and national actors in applying international law -- The Relation between the lawfulness of actions and the constitutive process -- Establishment, transformation and termination of states and other actors: Introduction -- The Policies at stake in establishment, transformation and termination of territorial actors -- The Role of internal elites -- The Role of external elites -- Establishment of international actors other than states -- Protection and control of persons: Nationality -- Human rights -- Allocation, protection and regulation of use of the resources of the planet: General principles governing resource use -- Water -- Land -- Airspace -- Antarctica -- Outer space and celestial bodies -- The Environment -- State responsibility: Introduction -- Responsibility for breach of an international legal obligation -- Attribution of an act to a state -- Circumstances precluding wrongfulness -- Consequences of responsibility -- Serious violations of peremptory norms -- Invocation of state responsibility -- Strategies: Regulating the use of the military instrument -- Regulating the use of the economic instrument -- Regulating the use of the ideological instrument -- Regulating the use of the diplomatic instrument -- Regulating international agreements -- Jurisdiction: allocation of competence to make and apply law: Introduction -- Competence to make law -- Competence to apply law -- Recognition and enforcement -- Conclusion ER -