Public international law / Jose M. Aruego

Includes index.

Nature, basis, and scope -- Sources and divisions of public international law -- Enforcement and sanctions -- Subjects of public international law -- Recognition of States -- Recognition of governments -- Right of existence and independence -- The Right of equality -- Tight of property and domain -- Right of jurisdiction -- The Right of jurisdiction over persons -- Nationality and citizenship -- The Right of diplomatic intercourse -- Continuity of state personality and succession of states and governments -- Treaties and other interstate agreements -- United Nation organization -- Non-amicable measures of redress short of war -- Commencement and general effects of war -- Belligerents and belligerent operations -- Prisoners of war -- Spies, war traitors, and war rebels -- Sanitary formations and the sick, wounded and shipwrecked -- Belligerent occupation -- Belligerent vessels -- Treatment of vessels of the enemy -- Treatment of goods of the enemy -- The Right of visit and search -- Prize courts -- Hostile blockades -- Contraband -- Unneutral service -- Non-hostile relations between belligerents -- Suspension of hostilities and armistice -- Termination of war -- Neutrality -- Trial of war criminals -- Postliminium -- Responsibility of states -- Historical development of public international law

This book has been written to help law and foreign service students in their studies in international law and diplomacy. It covers, in the form of questions and answers., what are generally considered to be the fundamentals of the subject.