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5 - International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2024

W. J. Hudson
By
Kevin Ryan
Edited by
Australian Institute of International Affairs
W. J. Hudson
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales, Sydney
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Summary

The participation by the Commonwealth of Australia in international affairs requires it to enter into relations with other states and international organisations which are regulated by a body of law that is in many respects imperfectly defined and interpreted in divergent ways. Since the close of the Second World War, numerous concerted attempts have been made to settle more definitively the content of the customary law applicable in important areas of international life, and to amend that law to take account of changing political, economic and technological conditions.

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Australiainternational lawlawforeign policyAustralian foreign policyinternational affairsworld affairsinternational relations
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Australia in World Affairs 1971–1975 , pp. 111 - 125
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
First published in: 2024

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