International Law Rights and Politics

<p>Rein Mullerson was Deputy Foreign Minister of Estonia during the country's independence struggles and is a distinguished professor of international relations. His book is concerned with the interplay of international law and politics in the changing international system.<br>He analyses events in Eastern Europe and the former USSR to throw light on broad and controversial issues including non-use of force, non-interference in internal affairs, self-determination of peoples, minorities and nationalism in inter-ethnic conflicts and human rights in post-totalitarian societies. Controversial questions of continuity and succession of states and their recognition are also set in this context.<br>One purpose of the book is to show how recent developments influence the international system as a whole and how international law has to change in order to respond to new challenges.</p> Introduction; Chapter 1 The end of the Cold War; Chapter 2 Self-determination; Chapter 3 Minorities in Eastern Europe and the former USSR; Chapter 4 Law and politics in the recognition of new states; Chapter 5 Issues of continuity and the succession of states; Chapter 6 Human rights and democracy in post-totalitarian societies; Conclusion;