This book explores how elite commitments to cooperate with international organizations can be supplanted by domestic political constraints. It contends that the
"African civil law countries are traditionally described as monist and common law countries as dualist. This book illustrates that the monism-dualism dichotomy
This book was first published in 2003. As World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horror wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, Afric