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American Foreign Policy: Past, Present, and Future by Glenn P. Hastedt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017
This book prepares students to think about America's changing role in the world and to develop the critical thinking skills needed to participate in the debate about the conduct and content of American foreign policy. Topics included but not limited to: hybrid warfare, cyber wars, drones, and an assessment of Obama's foreign policy, women in combat, the climate agreement, the Iran nuclear agreement, etc. Visit the companion website, textbooks.rowman.com/hastedt11e, designed to reinforce the main topics.
Landmark Legislation 1774-2012: Major U.S. Acts and Treaties by Stephen W. Stathis (Editor)
Publisher: SAGE, 2014
This book provides information about the most important laws and treaties enacted by the U.S. Congress. It includes acts and treaties chosen for their historical significance or their precedential importance for later areas of major federal legislative activity in the over 200 years since the convocation of the Continental Congress.
Treaties and Alliances of the World 8th Ed
Publisher: John Harper, 2007
'Treaties & Alliances of the World' was first published in 1968 and has been comprehensively revised and updated for this new edition. It provides a unique guide to the international system, concise and factual in style and comprehensive in range.
US Laws, Acts, and Treaties by Timothy L. Hall (Editor); Christian J. Moose (Editor); Salem Press Staff
Publisher: Salem Press, 2003
This three-volume work offers a unique, one-stop resource for basic information and historical context on 433 major acts of Congress and U.S. treaties, from the Articles of Confederation through the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

Convention on International Civil Aviation by Ruwantissa Abeyratne
Publisher: Springer, 2014
This book is both a repertory guide to the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention) as well as a legal analysis of the provisions of the treaty. It traces action taken by the ICAO Assembly and the Council in the implementation of the Convention from the first ICAO Assembly in 1947 until 2012. Above all, the book offers a commentary on the functional and moral fabric of the Chicago Convention, which is not only a multilateral legal instrument that sets out basic principles of air navigation and air transport, but also serves as a moral compass that brings the people of the world together.
Routledge Handbook of Public Aviation Law by Paul Stephen Dempsey (Editor); Ram S. Jakhu (Editor)
Publisher: Routledge, 2017
This prestigious reference work provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of Public Aviation Law. It surveys the state of the discipline including contemporary and emerging areas of law, regulation, and public policy in air transportation. Each chapter begins with an overview of the international law applicable to the subject matter, followed, where appropriate, by a comparative examination of domestic statutes, regulations, and jurisprudence. It discusses a number of major multilateral treaties such as the Chicago Convention of 1944 and various annexes and protocols.
Level Playing Field for Open Skies by Peter Paul Fitzgerald
Publisher: Eleven International, 2016
This book examines the events that have reshaped the international aviation industry between 1992 and 2012. It critically analyzes the major developments and the regulatory responses, and it highlights some of the incompatible and disjointed regulations that are in effect at either end of international routes. The book proposes that the United States, Canada, the European Union, Australia, and New Zealand form an international organization, to be known as the Open Skies International Aviation Block (OSIAB). OSIAB would be based on expanding the membership of the US-EU Joint Committee foreseen in the 2007 US-EU Open Skies Agreement, as well as expanding its scope to cover every aspect of the regulation of international commercial aviation.

Sustainable Development, International Aviation, and Treaty Implementation by Armand L. C. de Mestral (Editor); P. Paul Fitzgerald (Editor); Tanveer Ahmad (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Press, 2018
This book explains why the CORSIA scheme, adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization in 2016, should be implemented in 2020 even though the adequacy of this scheme is still open to doubt and criticism. International civil aviation is a significant polluter of the atmosphere, and in this volume, a group of air law and sustainable development law specialists considers how the international community can respond.
Global Climate Policy: Actors, Concepts, and Enduring Challenges by Urs Luterbacher; Detlef F. Sprinz; Michaël Aklin; Daniel Bodansky; Lavanya Rajamani
Publisher: MIT Press, 2018
Analyses of the international climate change regime consider the challenges of maintaining current structures and the possibilities for creating new forms of international cooperation.The current international climate change regime has a long history, and it is likely that its evolution will continue, despite such recent setbacks as the decision by President Donald Trump to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement of 2015.
International Environmental Agreements by Steinar Andresen (Editor); Elin Lerum Boasson (Editor); Geir Hønneland (Editor); Geir Hønneland (Editor)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2012
International environmental agreements provide a practical basis for countries to address environmental issues on a global scale. This book explores the workings and outcomes of these agreements, and analyses key questions of why some problems are dealt with successfully and others ignored.
Towards Continental Environmental Policy? North American Transnational Networks and Governance by Owen Temby (Editor)
Publisher: SUNY Press, 2017
Examines the challenges of environmental governance in contemporary North America. What are the most important transnational governance arrangements for environmental policy in North America? Has their proliferation facilitated a transition towards integrated continental environmental policy, and if so, to what degree is this integration irreversible? These governance arrangements are diverse and evolving, consisting of binational and trinational organizations created decades ago by treaties and groups of stakeholders--with varying degrees of formalization--who work together to address issues that no single country can alone.

The Twilight of Human Rights Law by Eric Posner
Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press, 2014
This book gives a history of human rights law, and "eminent legal scholar Eric A. Posner argues that purposefully unenforceable human rights treaties are at the heart of the world's failure to address human rights violations."
Campaigning for Justice: Human Rights Advocacy in Practice by Jo Becker
Publisher: Stanford Univ Press, 2020
Explores the strategies behind some of the most innovative human rights campaigns and exciting human rights victories of recent years.
OPCW: the Legal Texts by Organisation for the Prohibition (Editor)
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2015
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (CWC), which entered into force on 29 April 1997, bans an entire category of weapons of mass destruction. The CWC has now been in force for almost twenty years and having 190 States Parties as at July 2014, has almost achieved universal adherence. To achieve its objectives, the CWC established the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

Maritime Governance and Policy-Making by Michael Roe
Publisher: Springer, 2012
A close analysis of the framework of existing governance and the existing jurisdictional arrangements for shipping and ports. It addresses fundamental questions of governance, jurisdiction and policy and applies them to the maritime sector.
The Politics of the Oceans by Kenneth Partridge
Publisher: H.W. Wilson, 2011
From overfishing and whaling to pollution and pirates, a number of significant issues are impacting the oceans in the 21st century. The selections contained in this volume chart the most significant of these problems and describe the political structures in place to confront them. It includes information on the Law of the Sea treaty.
The United Nation's Convention on the Law of the Sea (Treaty doc. 103-39): Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, September 27 and October 4, 2007 by United States
Publisher: U.S. GPO, 2008
Hearing to discuss the Convention on the Law of Sea, a product of several decades of bipartisan effort. Of concern are the deep seabed mining provisions.

The Regulation of International Trade by Petros C. Mavroidis
Publisher: MIT Press, 2016
A detailed examination of WTO agreements regulating trade in goods, discussing legal context, policy background, economic rationale, and case law. Each chapter examines a given legal norm and its subsequent practice.
Free Trade Agreements and Globalisation: In the Shadow of Brexit and Trump by Arne Melchior
Publisher: Springer, 2018
This book analyses the fast spread of free trade agreements (FTAs) across the globe, their content and their economic impact. In the wake of Brexit and the new protectionism of President Trump, Melchior offers a timely assessment of key issues relating to FTAs.
U. S. Trade Policy: History, Theory, and the WTO by William A. Lovett; Alfred E. Eckes, Jr; Richard L. Brinkman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2015
This book evaluates the evolution of U.S. trade policy.
The Impact of the OECD and un Model Conventions on Bilateral Tax Treaties by Michael Lang (Editor); Pasquale Pistone (Editor); Josef Schuch (Editor); Claus Staringer (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Press, 2012
This book provides an analysis of bilateral tax treaties concluded by thirty-seven jurisdictions from five continents and empirically ascertains the impact of the UN and OECD Model Tax Conventions on bilateral tax treaties.

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