Abstract This article examines how judges and lawyers working in international criminal courts see their authority relation to power exerted by states, organisations private actors. We draw together ethnographic research inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ( ictr ) Court icc that examined perceptions of interactions among local, national legal regimes potential accomplice liab...

We report the results of an intercomparison of monochromatic radiant power measurement capabilities recently completed by 11 national laboratories. The intercomparison radiometers, distributed in pairs, included an amplifier with six decades of precision gain and one of two types of silicon photodiode (pn or np-type construction). Eleven of the laboratories measured the absolute responsivity of...

Many observers have recently noted that the international system is evolving into a multipolar world. At the same time, the notion of balance of power is being severely criticized for its vagueness and inconsistency. Seven empirically testable propositions which exemplify refined and narrowed notions of balance of power are reviewed and analyzed in this paper. These propositions, authored by A....

In general in an organisation whose system of governance involves weighted voting, a member’s weight in terms of the number of votes and the formal power it represents differ. Power indices provide a means of analysing this difference. The paper uses new algorithms for computing power indices for large games. Three analyses are carried out: (1) the distribution of Banzhaf voting power among mem...