This book explores the implications of a multipolar world for the development of international law, including contributions from Nigel White, Alexander Orakhelashvili and Christian Pippan. The contributions explore issues including the use of force, governance, regionalism and the relevance of the UN, considering the relationship between power and law.

The twenty-first century will witness conflicts which may destabilize the international order. These conflicts are likely to arise between emerging Asian States such as China and India whose material power is growing, and the Western nations who wield significant ideational power. A West-centric international society will change to a multi-polar and multi-civilizational global society. This structural change includes, and further needs, changes of understandings and perceptions of the world, including of international law. The perspectives from which we see, understand, appreciate and assess international law must change. We need to interpret international law not only from a prevalent Statecentric international perspective and West-centric transnational perspective. Onuma argues that we must grasp international law from what he calls a trans-civilizational perspective as well. By adopting such three-layered perspectives, international law is shown to be functioning as a tool of politics yet constrained by cultural and civilizational factors. Such complex subjects as global history of international law, concepts of general and customary international law, and human rights could be appreciated in a more nuanced and subtle manner.

This book explores the implications of a multipolar world for the development of international law, including contributions from Nigel White, Alexander Orakhelashvili and Christian Pippan. The contributions explore issues including the use of force, governance, regionalism and the relevance of the UN, considering the relationship between power and law.

This book adopts a 'trans-civilizational' perspective on the history and development of current West-centric international law.

Despite the sustained scholarly attention that the United Nations and international NGOs have received in the twenty-first century, they still remain under-researched from a management studies perspective. This volume brings together rich analyses of these organizations’ functioning, arguing that they are best understood as intermediaries between international decision-making and funding bodies in the developed world and initiatives that take place on the ground, primarily in the Global South. Based on current management research, this follow-up to Rethinking International Organizations (Berghahn, 2002) provides a wealth of both empirical and theoretical insights, along with practical recommendations how these organizations can function more effectively.

International law basically comprises of rules and principles which govern the relations and dealings of nations with each other. It establishes the framework and the criteria for indentifying states as the principal actors in the international legal system. International also concerned with group rights, treatment of aliens, rights of refugees, international crimes, rationality problem, self-determination and Human rights generally. It further focuses on area like maintenance of international peace and security, arms control, the pacific settlement of disputes and regulation of the use of force in international relations, it is seen that even when the law is not able to stop the outbreak of war, it has developed principles to govern the conduct of hostilities and the treatment of prisoners. At present application of international law has touched almost all corner of law including global environment, the global commons such as international waters, outer space, global communications and world trade. Whilst municipal law is hierarchical in its structure, international law is horizontal in nature. This means that all states are sovereign and theoretically equal. It purposes was to regulate diplomatic relations between states in a judicial way on the basis of mutual respect of national sovereignty. Many contemporary theories approach international law-making with a shift in emphasis from the sources of law towards the broad range of fundamental issues, from sustainable development, environment and refugees protection, disaster relief, counter terrorism, disarmament and non-proliferation, to promoting democracy and human rights etc.