The possibilities of international law received a severe blow by the terrorist attacks in 2001 and the ensuing conflicts over the decision to intervene in Iraq. The immediate effect is reflected by institutional and policy changes. The long-term effect consists in changing sets of norms and institutions that have been regulating the interplay between politics and law on the global scale, so far...

the issue of conflicting jurisdictions is certainly not new to law. it has long been known in domestic law systems. however, for public international law the issue of conflicting jurisdictions is relatively new. since the early 1990s we have witnessed an indisputable proliferation of international courts and tribunals endowed with the jurisdiction to deal with certain areas of international law...

A central assumption of deliberative theory is that political preferences are endogenous to decision-making processes in which they are transformed by communicative interaction. We identify discursiveness and coordinativeness of interaction as central determinants of preference change and develop a typology of political modes of interaction that affect the likelihood of preference change differ...

This study explores the relationship between principles of distributive justice (DJ) and the durability of negotiated agreements. Sixteen peace agreements negotiated during the early 1990s were coded for the centrality of each of four principles of DJ – equality, proportionality, compensation, and need – to the core terms of the agreement. The agreements were also assessed on scales of implemen...