Author: B. J. Slot
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: kuwait, origins
Number of Pages: 127
Published: 1991-08-01
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 9004094091
ISBN-13: 9789004094093

Since the discovery of the worlds third largest oil reserves within its borders, Kuwait has achieved international political prominence far exceeding its physical size. The country had already played a role in history before, however. Local sources take that history back to the beginning of the nineteenth century. The present book takes the history of Kuwait still further back using European sources. It includes analyses and comparisons of indications on maps from the sixteenth century onwards and of references to the Kuwait area in documents produced by officials of th

Authors:Piet Jan Slot, Mielle Bulterman,
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Keywords: jurisdiction, amp, globalisation
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2004-08-12
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 9041123075
ISBN-13: 9789041123077

Ever since international economic relations have been established law has been developed to shape them in a satisfactory manner. Conversely, changes in the law have sometimes preceded, and thus fostered, international economic intercourse. The spectacular growth of the international economy over the past decades has called for a more intensive role for the law, and probably also a different kind of law. This has led to a panoply of new legal instruments and procedures as well as a resuscitation of the traditional and established forms. In December 2002, the Europa Instituut of Leiden Unive