Chapter I: Amicable Settlement of State Differences

I. _State Differences and their Amicable Settlement in General_

SECT. PAGE

1. Legal and political International Differences 3
2. International Law not exclusively concerned with Legal
Differences 4
3. Amicable in contradistinction to compulsive settlement of
Differences 4

II. _Negotiation_

4. In what Negotiation consists 6
5. International Commissions of Inquiry 6
6. Effect of Negotiation 9

III. _Good Offices and Mediation_

7. Occasions for Good Offices and Mediation 10
8. Right and Duty of offering, requesting, and rendering
Good Offices and Mediation 10
9. Good Offices in contradistinction to Mediation 11
10. Good Offices and Mediation according to the Hague
Arbitration Convention 12
11. Value of Good Offices and Mediation 14

IV. _Arbitration_

12. Conception of Arbitration 16
13. Treaty of Arbitration 16
14. Who is to Arbitrate? 17
15. On what principles Arbitrators proceed and decide 18
16. Binding force of Arbitral Verdict 18
17. What differences can be decided by Arbitration 19
18. Value of Arbitration 22

V. _Arbitration according to the Hague Convention_

19. Arbitral Justice in general 23
20. Arbitration Treaty and appointment of Arbitrators 26
21. Procedure of and before the Arbitral Tribunal 27
22. Arbitral Award 30
23. Binding force of Awards 30
24. Award binding upon Parties only 31
25. Costs of Arbitration 32
25_a_. Arbitration by Summary Procedure 32