Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 The Multifaceted Nature of International Law: -- The "sources" of international law -- Customary International Law -- Soft Law -- Jus Cogens -- General Principles of Law, the Writings of Scholars, and Law Created by International Organizations -- Ex Aequo Et Bono, Equity, and Unilateral Acts of States -- judicial decisions -- Unilateral Declarations -- With friends like these -- Notes -- 2 International Institutions -- United nations -- The Human Rights Council -- International court of justice -- International criminal tribunals and hybrid courts -- The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia -- The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda -- The International Criminal Court -- Hybrid Courts -- Notes -- 3 Who Shall Enforce the Peace? -- The permanent members' failure to fulfill their responsibilities -- The Charter Paradigm: A Brief Excursus -- Abdication from the Outset: The Failure to Conclude Article 43 Agreements -- The Conflict in Palestine -- Korea -- Suez -- The collapse of collective security and enforced innovation: the rise of peacekeeping -- End of the Cold War: collective security redux? -- Iraq-Iran -- Iraq-Kuwait -- Yugoslavia -- The Downfall of Saddam Hussein -- Such Good Friends -- Oil-for-Food -- The Duelfer Report -- The Bottom Line: No Security Council Resolution Authorizing Saddams Removal -- Darfur -- Who shall enforce the peace? -- Permanent Members of the Security Council -- An Alliance of Democratic States -- Regional Arrangements or Agencies -- The United Nations -- conclusion -- Notes -- 4 The Law of Armed Conflict -- Twenty-first-century challenges to the law of armed conflict -- Noninternational Armed Conflict -- The War(s) on Terrorism.

The Relationship between International Human Rights Law and the Law of Armed Conflict -- Notes -- 5 Arms Control, Disarmament, Nonproliferation, and Safeguards -- Problems with controlling illicit trade in small arms and light weapons -- The decline of arms control treaties -- The international convention for the suppression of acts of nuclear terrorism -- The failure of nuclear weapons states to disarm -- The greatest threats to the nonproliferation regime -- Iran -- North Korea -- Some concluding observations -- Notes -- 6 Human Rights -- The efficacy (or not) of international human rights treaties -- The financing of terrorism, security council resolution 1373, the al-qaeda and taliban committee, and human rights -- The al-Qaeda and Taliban Committee -- The high commissioner for human rights -- Mary Robinson -- Louise Arbour -- Navenethem Pillay -- The european court of human rights and fundamental freedoms -- Some concluding observations -- Notes -- 7 International Environmental Issues -- Climate change -- Form and forum of negotiations -- Time frame -- Mitigation commitments -- Adaptation -- Implementation and compliance -- Biodiversity -- Notes -- 8 Causes of the Present Malaise, Concluding Observations, and a Prognosis -- Causes of the present malaise -- Some concluding observations -- A prognosis -- Notes -- Index.