Books in the Law & Cosmopolitan Values series

What lies in the common interest of the international community? How are those common interests protected? What is the role of states and of the international community? The Common Interest in International Law provides answers to these key questions.

The adoption of Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security in 2000 marked the beginning of a global agenda on women in armed conflicts and post-conflict transition. This book discusses this UN agenda and provides a systematic review of its implementation, over the last fifteen years, in peace agreements around the world.

The goal of the volume is to explore how widespread criticism of the European Court of Human Rights is. It also assesses to what extent such criticism is being translated in strategies at the political level or at the judicial level and brings about concrete changes in the dynamics between national and European fundamental rights protection.

Traditionally meant to further participation of citizens in politics, participatory democracy has now become an ideal where citizens are represented by a self-designated elite of civil society experts

Common Interests in International Litigation provides answers to questions that international litigation faces as the result of an increasing recognition of common interests in this area, with an ever-expanding network of specialised judicial bodies.