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Michael Byers & Georg Nolte (eds.), United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law (2003) - Michael Byers & Georg Nolte (eds.), United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003. 531 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

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German Law Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 12 , 01 December 2003 , pp. 1383 - 1390
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