The Yugoslav Crisis in International Law
The Yugoslav Crisis in International Law

Author: University of Cambridge. Research Centre for International Law

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-07-28

Total Pages: 782

ISBN-13: 9780521463041

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This book brings together for the first time a comprehensive documentary record of the crisis in the former Yugoslavia, tracing the responses both of the United Nations and regional organisations. Many of the documents reproduced are otherwise inaccessible. This volume contains all relevant UN Security Council Resolutions and Presidential Statements together with the records of the debates leading to their adoption; reports on the crisis compiled by the UN Secretary-General; and extracts from decisions and debates in the UN General Assembly. The efforts of regional organisations are reflected in general documents from, amongst others, the EC, NATO, the Western European Union, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, and the Non-Aligned Movement.

International Perspectives on the Yugoslav Conflict
International Perspectives on the Yugoslav Conflict

Author: Alex Danchev

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1349245410

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International Perspectives on the Yugoslav Conflict is a collection of important new work by the leading authorities in the field. Unusually, this is an international investigation of an international conflict. The result is both profound and provocative - the most stimulating and the most far-reaching exploration of the subject yet to appear.

International Law and Yugoslav Conflicts
International Law and Yugoslav Conflicts

Author: Miroslav Baros

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9783659378225

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This book analyses the international response to the Yugoslav conflicts from a legal perspective. It examines several episodes of international involvement in the crisis. The research covers the period from early 1980s, when the international financial institutions conditioned their financial help to the former Yugoslavia, to the conclusion and implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreements, the subsequent NATO intervention in the FRY and the Macedonian conflict that developed in the wake of the intervention. The starting point in the analysis is the writer's conviction that international law consists of a set of rules determining relations among states and non-states actors, as opposed to the perception of the law as authoritative decision-making processes. Because of this perception of international law, there is a pervasive insistence on stricter and consistent application of the law to the conflicts. It is argued that, during the resolution of the crisis, law was circumvented for the sake of short-term political benefits.

The Break-up of Yugoslavia and International Law
The Break-up of Yugoslavia and International Law

Author: Peter Radan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-01-14

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 1134525451

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The demise of the former Yugoslavia was brought about by various secessionist movements seeking international recognition of statehood. This book provides a critical analysis from an international law perspective of the break-up of Yugoslavia. Although international recognition was granted to the former Yugoslav republics of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Macedonia, the claims of secessionist movements that sought a revision of existing internal federal borders were rejected. The basis upon which the post-secession international borders were accepted in international law involved novel applications of international law principles of self-determination of peoples and uti possidetis. This book traces the developments of these principles, and the historical development of Yugoslavia's internal borders.

The World and Yugoslavia's Wars
The World and Yugoslavia's Wars

Author: Richard Henry Ullman

Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780876091913

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What can outside powers do now to help heal the terrible wounds caused by Yugoslavia's wars? Why did the victors in the Cold War and the 1991 Gulf War not act to stop the slaughter? The nature, scope, and meaning of the actions and inactions of outsiders is the subject of this book.

International Law and Ethnic Conflict
International Law and Ethnic Conflict

Author: David Wippman

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-09-05

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1501730061

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The breakup of the former Yugoslavia demonstrates the limitations of international law in the face of ethnic conflict. The contributors to this book examine the various roles international law and international institutions play in dealing with ethnic conflict. International Law and Ethnic Conflict first covers general philosophical, historical, and cultural issues arising from attempts to apply international law to ethnic conflict. The authors assess the legitimacy of demands based on group identity, the legal rights of ethnic groups, the validity of various entitlement claims, and the meaning of statehood. They then consider the institutional and policy responses of international organizations and states in their attempts to deal with ethnic conflict and analyze the extent to which various forms of intervention prove successful.

The Kosovo Conflict and International Law
The Kosovo Conflict and International Law

Author: Heike Krieger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-07-12

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9780521800716

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This book was first published in 2001. The Kosovo Conflict and International Law provides international lawyers, scholars and students with access to material on the conflict in Kosovo. As well as the basic material relating to Kosovo's status in Yugoslavia before 1999, this volume reproduces the significant documentation on the following issues: the development of the human rights situation, the diplomatic efforts for the settlement of the crisis, the military action against Yugoslavia and the international community's response, court action with regard to the conflict, and the implementation of the principles for a political solution with an international civil and security presence in Kosovo. Dr Krieger's analytical introduction provides the historical and political context as well as an overview of the various legal aspects of the conflict. A chronology and detailed index make the documents more accessible.

The Dissolution of Yugoslavia and the Badinter Arbitration Commission
The Dissolution of Yugoslavia and the Badinter Arbitration Commission

Author: Steve Terrett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1351762869

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This title was first published in 2000: Yugoslavia’s dissolved at a time when rhetoric of the New World Order was firmly established in legal and political discourse. Nevertheless, the largely positive appraisal of international law’s response to the Iraq - Kuwait conflict has not been mirrored in relation to Yugoslavia. This book evaluates the peace-making efforts of the major institutional actors, whilst focusing specifically on the Badinter Arbitration Commission, an ad hoc EC-created organ required to provide legal advice on the issues surrounding Yugoslavia’s dissolution. Initially composed of constitutional lawyers, aiming to redraft Yugoslavia’s constitution, the Commission soon faced problems of public international law. Its’ jurisprudence challenges international lawyers to reassess their state-centric conceptions of international law in a world where most conflicts, war crimes and human-rights abuses exist within rather than between States. This book is vital reading for anyone interested in international law, international relations, politics and central/eastern European studies.

Peace with Justice?
Peace with Justice?

Author: Paul R. Williams

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780742518568

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In this work, two former State Department lawyers provide an account of how and why justice was misapplied and mishandled throughout the peace-builders' efforts to settle the Yugoslav conflict. The text is based on their personal experience, research and interviews with key players in the process.