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>