Third-Party Countermeasures in International Law

by Martin Dawidowicz

Overview

The use of third-party countermeasures is an increasingly common phenomenon in international relations, yet their legal position remains uncertain. Providing the first systematic and comprehensive study of this key concept in international law, Martin Dawidowicz explores the position of third-party countermeasures and their safeguards regime based on the development of ideas on countermeasures in the UN International Law Commission and a thorough examination of state practice. The book clarifies the position of third-party countermeasures in international law, and in doing so challenges some widely held assumptions about the likely impact of a regime of third-party countermeasures on international relations. It will be of interest to international law and relations scholars and students, diplomats, policy makers, international civil servants and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the field of human rights.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781107014794
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/24/2017
Series:	Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law , #131
Pages:	426
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.29(h) x 1.18(d)

About the Author

Martin Dawidowicz was formerly Departmental Lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Oxford, and is currently Visiting Lecturer in Public International Law at Stockholms Universitet. He was previously an associate at LALIVE in Geneva where he practiced public international law and international arbitration, and before that he worked in the UN Office of Legal Affairs in New York.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Third-party countermeasures and the ICJ; 3. Third-party countermeasures in the ILC; 4. Third-party countermeasures in state practice; 5. Permissibility of third-party countermeasures: evaluation; 6. Third-party countermeasures and safeguards against abuse; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.