Risk and Force in World Society: Forcible Countermeasures for the Restoration of Peace
Author:   Achilles Skordas (Professor of International Law, University of Bristol)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   460
Publication Date:   25 March 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Achilles Skordas (Professor of International Law, University of Bristol)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
ISBN:  

9780199559718


ISBN 10:   0199559716
Pages:   460
Publication Date:   25 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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1. Methodological and theoretical background ; 2. The formalist paradigm and its inherent contradictions ; 3. The 'war on terror' and the law of force ; 4. Kosovo intervention and forcible countermeasures ; 5. The war against Iraq (2003) and the ultimate boundaries of interpretation ; 6. The Russian invasion in Georgia ; 7. Structure and function of forcible countermeasures

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Achilles Skordas is Professor of International Law at the University of Bristol. He studied, and later taught, law at the University of Athens-Greece, and was awarded a PhD in Law (Dr. jur.) by the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt-am-Main. He was previously an advisor to the Greek Parliament on international legal affairs. Achilles has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, Visiting Professor at the University of Paris XII, Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, and CLPE Fellow at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in Toronto. He is the Greek member of the Odysseus Academic Network for Legal Studies on Asylum and Immigration in Europe.

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