Mr. Edward McWhinney Professor of International Law
Past President
Institut de Droit International
Biography
Peace and Security
Friendly Relations
Peaceful Coexistence and
Contemporary International Law
The juridical "great debate" of the Cold War era between jurists from the two rival political-military blocs, Soviet and Western, over the Soviet call for an immediate drafting and adoption of a Code of International Law Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, may have lessons to offer for other historical eras characterized by competing political-ideological systems or colliding civilizations, in its deliberate de-ideologising of the agenda and process of inter-bloc discussions and negotiations in favour of more consciously pragmatic, empirically-based and problem-oriented approaches to resolving concrete and immediate tension-issues between the two blocs.
G.I. Tunkin, "Coexistence and International Law", [1958] 95 Hague Recueil 1.
G.I. Tunkin, "Sorok Let Sosyshchestvovania I Mezhdunarodnoe Pravo", [1958] Sovetskii Ezhegodnik Mezhdunarodnogo Pravo 15.
J.N. Hazard, "Codifying Peaceful Coexistence", [1961] 55 American Journal of International Law 109.
J.N. Hazard, "Coexistence Codification Reconsidered", [1963] 57 American Journal of International Law 88.
Edward McWhinney, "Peaceful Coexistence" and Soviet-Western International Law [Leyden: A.W. Sythoff, 1964].
Edward McWhinney, The International Law of Détente. Arms Control, European Security, and East-West Cooperation [Alphen aan den Rijn: Sijthoff and Nordhoff, 1978].
Edward McWhinney, "International Law Making in times of competing ideologies or clashing civilizations: Peaceful Coexistence and Soviet-Western legal dialogue in the Cold War era", [2006] Canadian Yearbook of International Law 421.
Sir Ian Sinclair, "Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States", Essays in International Law in Honour of Krishna Rao, [MK Nawaz [ed.,] Faridabad: Thomson Press, 1975], 139.
"Symposium on Fiftieth Anniversary of Pancha Shila Agreement of 1954: Statement by Wen Jiaobao", [2004] 3 Chinese Journal of International Law 363; "Statement by K.R. Narayanan", [2004] 3 Chinese Journal of International Law 369; "Statement by Boutros Boutros-Ghali", [2004] 3 Chinese Journal of International Law 373.
Report of the Forty-Seventh Conference, International Law Association, 1956 [London: International Law Association, 1957]; ibid., Reports of 48th Conference, 1958; 49th Conference, 1960; 50th Conference, 1962.
