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Detlev F. Vagts
Publications - 61
Citations - 611
Detlev F. Vagts is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: International law & Law of war. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 61 publications receiving 595 citations.
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Hegemonic International Law
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the right of self-defense is not based on a victim state's inherent powers of selfpreservation, but upon its ability to convince the fifteen members of the Security Council that it has correctly identified its attacker.
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International Law in the Third Reich
TL;DR: For instance, this paper reviewed German international law during the Third Reich, which ended in 1945, and found that people who hold certain views on international law are dismissed, exiled, imprisoned and even hanged.
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The Balance of Power in International Law: A History of an Idea
Alfred Vagts,Detlev F. Vagts +1 more
TL;DR: The existence of a significant relationship between the balance of power and international law would be regarded as improbable by most modern international lawyers as mentioned in this paper, who would think of the balance as a wholly obsolete conception and, in any case, as a part of international policy, or worse, part of cynical Realpolitik rather than of law.
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So-Called ‘Unprivileged Belligerency’: Spies, Guerrillas, and Saboteurs*
Detlev F. Vagts,Theodor Meron +1 more
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The Hague Conventions and Arms Control
TL;DR: The Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, and the conventions they produced, opened the doors-just barely-to the era of arms control But they did so in a way that would not have been expected as discussed by the authors.