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Author Sayapin, Sergey

Title The Crime of Aggression in International Criminal Law : Historical Development, Comparative Analysis and Present State
Published Dordrecht : Springer, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (352 pages)
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I The Internationally Wrongful Act of State; 1 Historical Background of the Criminalization of Aggression; Abstract; 1.1 An Overview of the jus ad bellum Before World War II; 1.1.1 The Ancient World; 1.1.1.1 Asian Civilizations; 1.1.1.1.1 Egypt; 1.1.1.1.2 Middle East; 1.1.1.1.3 China; 1.1.1.1.4 India; 1.1.1.2 European Civilizations; 1.1.1.2.1 Ancient Greece; 1.1.1.2.2 Ancient Rome; 1.1.2 The Middle Ages; 1.1.2.1 Islamic Attitudes Toward War; 1.1.2.2 Attitudes Toward War in Japan; 1.1.2.3 European "Just War" Doctrines
1.1.2.4 Impact of Hugo Grotius' De jure belli ac pacis1.1.2.5 Impact of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia; 1.1.3 Impact of the Napoleonic Wars and of the 1814-1815 Vienna Congress; 1.1.4 Carl von Clausewitz's "On War"; 1.1.5 Impact of the 1899 and 1907 Hague Peace Conferences; 1.1.6 Evolution of International Legal Attitudes Toward War Under the Aegis of the League of Nations; 1.1.6.1 Impact of US President W. Wilson's "Fourteen Points"; 1.1.6.2 Impact of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles (Including the Covenant of the League of Nations)
1.1.6.3 Impact of the 1923 Draft Treaty of Mutual Assistance and the 1924 League of Nations Protocol for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes1.1.6.4 Impact of the 1925 Locarno Treaties; 1.1.6.5 Impact of the 1928 General Treaty for the Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy; 1.1.6.6 Impact of the 1933 Soviet Union's Draft Definition of Aggression; 1.2 Evolution of the Concept of Aggression After World War II; 1.2.1 Work Accomplished by the United Nations War Crimes Commission
1.2.2 London Agreement of 8 August 1945 and the Charter of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal1.2.3 International Military Tribunal for the Far East; 1.2.4 Allied Control Council Law No 10; 1.2.5 Attitudes Within the United Nations System; 1.2.5.1 Charter of the United Nations; 1.2.5.2 Attitudes of the UN Security Council; 1.2.5.3 Attitudes of the UN General Assembly; 1.2.5.4 Attitudes of the International Court of Justice; 1.2.5.5 Attitudes of the Secretary-General; 1.2.5.6 Attitudes of the International Law Commission; 1.2.6 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
1.2.6.1 Initial Reference to the Crime in Article 5 of the Rome Statute1.2.6.2 Work Accomplished by the Preparatory Commission for the Establishment of an International Criminal Court; 1.2.6.3 Work Accomplished by the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; 1.2.6.4 Work Accomplished by the First Review Conference of the States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; References; 2 Elements of an Act of Aggression: An Overview of Modern International Law and Practice
Summary Since after the Second World War, the crime of aggression is - along with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes - a ""core crime"" under international law. However, despite a formal recognition of aggression as a matter of international criminal law and the reinforcement of the international legal regulation of the use of force by States, numerous international armed conflicts occurred but no one was ever prosecuted for aggression since 1949. This book comprehensively analyses the historical development of the criminalisation of aggression, scrutinises in a detailed manner the relev
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Subject International Criminal Court.
SUBJECT International Criminal Court fast
Subject Aggression
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ISBN 9789067049276
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