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Mr. Edward McWhinney
Professor of International Law
Past President
Institut de Droit International
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Peace and Security
Friendly Relations
Peaceful Coexistence and
Contemporary International Law
The juridical "great debate" of the Cold War era between jurists from the two rival political-military blocs, Soviet and Western, over the Soviet call for an immediate drafting and adoption of a Code of International Law Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, may have lessons to offer for other historical eras characterized by competing political-ideological systems or colliding civilizations, in its deliberate de-ideologising of the agenda and process of inter-bloc discussions and negotiations in favour of more consciously pragmatic, empirically-based and problem-oriented approaches to resolving concrete and immediate tension-issues between the two blocs.
Use of Force
The United Nations Charter Chapter VII Prohibitions on the Use of Force and Armed Interventions:
International Law Lessons from
the former Yugoslavia (1999), Iraq (2003),
Afghanistan (2005) and Libya (2011)
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Peace and Security
Friendly Relations
Peaceful Coexistence and Competing Legal Systems
or Clashing Civilisations |
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UNGA Resolution 2625 [XXV] 24 October 1970 |
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| Selected Bibliography |
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G.I. Tunkin, "Coexistence and International Law", [1958] 95 Hague Recueil 1. |
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G.I. Tunkin, "Sorok Let Sosyshchestvovania I Mezhdunarodnoe Pravo", [1958] Sovetskii Ezhegodnik Mezhdunarodnogo Pravo 15. |
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J.N. Hazard, "Codifying Peaceful Coexistence", [1961] 55 American Journal of International Law 109. |
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J.N. Hazard, "Coexistence Codification Reconsidered", [1963] 57 American Journal of International Law 88. |
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Edward McWhinney, "Peaceful Coexistence" and Soviet-Western International Law [Leyden: A.W. Sythoff, 1964]. |
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Edward McWhinney, The International Law of Détente. Arms Control, European Security, and East-West Cooperation [Alphen aan den Rijn: Sijthoff and Nordhoff, 1978]. |
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Edward McWhinney, "International Law Making in times of competing ideologies or clashing civilizations: Peaceful Coexistence and Soviet-Western legal dialogue in the Cold War era", [2006] Canadian Yearbook of International Law 421. |
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Sir Ian Sinclair, "Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States", Essays in International Law in Honour of Krishna Rao, [MK Nawaz [ed.,] Faridabad: Thomson Press, 1975], 139. |
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"Symposium on Fiftieth Anniversary of Pancha Shila Agreement of 1954: Statement by Wen Jiaobao", [2004] 3 Chinese Journal of International Law 363; "Statement by K.R. Narayanan", [2004] 3 Chinese Journal of International Law 369; "Statement by Boutros Boutros-Ghali", [2004] 3 Chinese Journal of International Law 373. |
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Report of the Forty-Seventh Conference, International Law Association, 1956 [London: International Law Association, 1957]; ibid., Reports of 48th Conference, 1958; 49th Conference, 1960; 50th Conference, 1962. |
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Use of Force
The United Nations Charter Chapter VII Prohibitions on the Use of Force and Armed Interventions:
International Law Lessons from
the former Yugoslavia (1999),
Iraq (2003),
Afghanistan (2005) and Libya (2011) |
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