A concise and balanced reference guide to the international system, useful both for quick fact-checking on the essentials of agreements as well as for more detailed background and comparative research on particular topics.
This new edition features full updating of all the book's traditional areas of coverage, including the activities of hundreds of international and regional treaty-based organizations and concise accounts of recent crises involving international and regional alliances.
Among the topics covered in the seventh edition are: the international tribunals set up to prosecute those responsible for war crimes in Rwanda and Yugoslavia and the establishment of an International Criminal Court; the creation of the African Union; step towards enlargement taken by the European Union and the creation of the European Central Bank; NATO's ""first war"" in Kosovo; conflict over the Kyoto Protocol on global warming; the 2002 US-Russian agreement to cut nuclear weapons; the increasing impact of the World Trade Organization; the crisis in the Middle East peace process; and the international consequences of September 11.
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