An introduction to contemporary international law : a policy-oriented perspective / Lung-chu Chen.

International law in a policy-oriented perspective
Nation-states
International governmental organizations
Nongovernmental organizations and associations
The individual
Minimum order and optimum order
Establishment of and access to arenas of authority
Control over territory
Control and use of the sea
Control and use of other resources
Control of people: nationality and movement
Protection of people: from alien rights to human rights
Vertical allocation of authority
Horizontal allocation of authority
The diplomatic instrument
International agreements
The ideological instrument
The economic instrument
The military instrument
The intelligence function
The promoting function
The prescribing (lawmaking) function
The invoking function
The applying function
The terminating function
The appraising function
Succession of states
Responsibility of states
Individual criminal responsibility
Toward a world community of human dignity.