Synopses & Reviews
This volume is presented in commemoration of the centenary of the establishment of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at the First Hague Peace Conference of 1899 and its continuation at the Second Hague Peace Conference of 1907. It makes widely available, in English, the reports of the competent Commissions of each Conference dealing with the pacific settlement of international disputes and the PCA, together with the proposal of the Second Conference for a permanent court of arbitral justice. The reports of the Commissions in the 1899 and 1907 conferences contain a full account of the considerations that prevailed in the negotiation of every provision of each Convention. They are authoritative commentaries on each Convention. This important book will facilitate access to the drafting history of the 1899 and 1907 Hague Peace Conventions and as such will be of interest to practitioners, historians and scholars of international law.
Synopsis
When the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) was founded just over a century ago the practice of referring disputes to international tribunals was un usual. Instead, arbitration, with its procedural emphasis on party-autonomy, was seen as the only acceptable way for sovereign states to settle their differences peacefully. War and neutrality, as Professor Shabtai Rosenne explains in his in troduction to this most welcome publication of extracts from the proceedings of the International Peace Conferences, were regarded as inevitable realities of in ternational relations as late as the mid-twentieth century. Moreover, a perma nent tribunal with international jurisdiction would not have stood much chance of either success, or survival, at the end ofthe nineteenth century. The First International Peace Conference in 1899 adopted the 1899 Conven tion for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, the objectives of which were international disarmament and the strengthening of international dispute settlement as an alternative to war. The 1899 Convention alsocreated the PCA in an effort to institutionalize dispute resolution through a third party mechanism."
Synopsis
This volume commemorates the centenary of the establishment of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at the First Hague Peace Conference of 1899 and its continuation at the Second Hague Peace Conference of 1907. Makes widely available, in English, the reports of the competent Commissions of each Conference.
Table of Contents
Foreword Tjaco T. van den Hout; Introduction Shabtai Rosenne; 'Introduction' to 'The Reports to the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907' (1917) James B. Scott; Part I. The International Peace Conference of 1899: Official correspondence leading up to the first Peace Conference; Report to the Conference from the Third Commission on Pacific Settlement of International Disputes; Final Act of the International Peace Conference of 1899; Part II. The International Peace Conference of 1907: Official correspondence leading up to the second Peace Conference; Extract from the Ninth Plenary Meeting, October 16, 1907; Report to the Conference from the First Commission recommending the creation of a Court of Arbitral Justice; Report to the Conference from the First Commission on the Revision of the Convention of 1899 for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes; Final Act of the second International Peace Conference, 1907; Appendices: Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, The Hague, 29 July 1899; Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, The Hague, 18 October 1907; Princes and Peacemakers: The Story of the Hague Peace Conference of 1899 Robin Sharwood.