| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| List of Cases | p. xiv |
| List of Major Treaties and International Instruments | p. xvii |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xxi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Central and East European Transboundary Environmental Disputes from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea | p. 9 |
| The Northern Tier: Polluting the Baltic Sea, Dark Clouds over the Black Triangle and Silesian Coal Basins, and East Meets West in Temelin | p. 11 |
| The Baltic Sea | p. 12 |
| The Black Triangle | p. 16 |
| The Silesian Coal Basin | p. 22 |
| The Temelin nuclear power plant | p. 25 |
| The Southern Tier: Cleaning up after the Soviets, Dumping in the Danube, Dueling Nuclear Power Plants, and Suffocating the Black Sea | p. 31 |
| The environmental legacy of Soviet occupation | p. 31 |
| The Romanian--Bulgarian Danube River Gauntlet | p. 35 |
| The Romanian--Bulgarian Nuclear Corridor | p. 38 |
| The Black Sea | p. 42 |
| Conclusion to Part I | p. 45 |
| Using International Law to Resolve the Slovak--Hungarian Dispute concerning the Construction and Operation of the Gabcikovo--Nagymaros Project | p. 49 |
| The Dispute-Formation Phase: Soviet-Inspired Designs to Harness the Power of the Danube and Post-transformation Second Thoughts | p. 51 |
| Factors encouraging the negotiation and adoption of the 1977 Agreement | p. 52 |
| The growing awareness of the environmental consequences of the Gabcikovo--Nagymaros Project | p. 55 |
| Hungary's initial proposals to modify the Gabcikovo--Nagymaros Project | p. 58 |
| The Pre-Resolution Phase: Enter Sub-state Actors, Third Parties and International Law | p. 60 |
| The involvement of sub-state actors | p. 60 |
| The involvement of third parties | p. 62 |
| Attempts to establish or identify appropriate dispute resolution mechanisms | p. 64 |
| The use of international law to frame negotiating positions | p. 65 |
| The Resolution Phase: Making the Case to the International Court of Justice | p. 67 |
| Inquiry and mediation by the European Commission | p. 68 |
| The submission of the dispute to the International Court of Justice | p. 70 |
| The multifarious issues and options put before the International Court of Justice | p. 73 |
| The determination of certain factual and legal questions by the International Court of Justice | p. 77 |
| The Implementation Phase: Back to the Negotiating Table and Possibly Back to the Court | p. 109 |
| The preliminary efforts of Slovakia and Hungary to negotiate a joint operating regime | p. 109 |
| Situational circumstances affecting the negotiation and implementation of a joint operating regime | p. 112 |
| Sub-state actors and interested third parties influencing the negotiation and implementation of a joint operating regime | p. 113 |
| Prospects for the enforcement and verification of a joint operating regime | p. 116 |
| Conclusion to Part II | p. 118 |
| Understanding the Role of International Law | p. 121 |
| The Regime of International Law: Its Nature and Function | p. 123 |
| The nature of international law as a constituent element of the international regime of transboundary environmental protection | p. 123 |
| The functions served by international law during the four phases of the transboundary environmental dispute resolution process | p. 127 |
| Influencing the Utilization of International Law: Sub-State Actors, Interested Third Parties, Situational Circumstances and Factors of Functionality | p. 135 |
| Sub-state actors | p. 135 |
| Interested third parties | p. 139 |
| Situational circumstances affecting the role of international law in the transboundary environmental dispute resolution process | p. 145 |
| Factors promoting the functionality of international law within the regime of transboundary environmental protection | p. 154 |
| Conclusion to Part III | p. 162 |
| Prospects for an Increasing Role for International Law in Promoting Central and East European Transboundary Environmental Dispute Resolution | p. 165 |
| Gauging the Operability of International Law: the Evolving Circumstances | p. 167 |
| Ecological circumstances | p. 167 |
| Economic circumstances | p. 170 |
| Domestic political circumstances | p. 175 |
| International political circumstances | p. 179 |
| National minority circumstances | p. 182 |
| Predicting the Future: an Increasing Role for International Law? | p. 188 |
| The Practice of Central and East European states applying international law to resolve international disputes | p. 188 |
| The practice of Central and East European states applying municipal environmental law to resolve domestic resource disputes | p. 191 |
| The correlation of Central and East European environmental law with municipal international environmental law | p. 197 |
| The accessibility of international judicial dispute resolution mechanisms to Central and East European states | p. 199 |
| The incentive for Central and East European states to utilize international law to assist with the resolution of transboundary environmental disputes | p. 204 |
| The perceived capacity of international law to assist in the resolution of Central and East European transboundary environmental disputes | p. 207 |
| Conclusion to Part IV | p. 215 |
| Conclusion | p. 218 |
| Notes | p. 228 |
| Bibliography | p. 280 |
| Index | p. 325 |
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