Studies in International Law and History : : An Asian Perspective / / R.P. Anand.

• Superior document: Developments in International Law ; 49
• VerfasserIn: Anand, R.P.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
• Language: English
• Series: Developments in International Law ; 49.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 287 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Although modern international law is now recognized as universally applicable to all the states as soon as they emerge as independent entities (whether members of the United Nations or not, they are accepted as members of the ever-expanding international society, and are bound by its rules and seek its protection), this is only a recent phenomenon not older than the United Nations itself. Before the Second World War, modern international law was supposed to be merely a law of and for the civilized Western European Christian states, or states of European origin, and applicable only between them. Not only Asian and African states which had come to be colonized, but also the position of independent states, such as Persia, Siam, China, Abyssinia, and the like, was said to be anomalous. Since they belonged to different civilizations, questions were raised as to how far relations with their governments could be based on the rules of international law. If that is the case, when did European international law become universally binding? Can states, which did not, and could not, participate in its origin and development question some of its rules, which are inimical to their interests? How can and does this law change, or be modified, in the absence of any supra-national legislature or other authority? What has been the attitude and practice of these newly independent Asian and African states towards international law, which was largely developed by and for the benefit of the rich and industrialized states of Western Europe and the United States, and even more importantly, their role in its development? The author, an Asian scholar and well-known Professor of International Law, trained and educated in the West, has sought to deal with these and other questions in the nine papers contained in this book.

Table of Contents

Preface, Jawaharlal Nehru and International Law and Relations, Family of "Civilized" States and Japan: A Story of Humiliation, Assimiliation, Defiance and Confrontation, The Status of Tibet in International Law, Enhancing the Acceptability of Compulsory Procedures of International Dispute Settlement, The World Court on Trial, Common Heritage of Mankind: Mutilation of an Ideal, Navigation through Territorial Sea and Straits- Revisited, South Asia and the Law of the Sea: Problems and Prospects, A New International Economic Order for Sustainable Development?, Index.