| aa | Association Agreement |
| achpr | African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights |
| ajil | American Journal of International Law |
| anca | Armenian National Committee of America |
| Art. | Article |
| assr | Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic |
| avr | Archiv des Völkerrechts |
| AzSSR | Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic |
| bbc | British Broadcasting Corporation |
| b-vg | Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz |
| ccai | Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues |
| cesr | Center for Economic and Social Rights |
| cfreu | Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union |
| cfsp | Common Foreign and Security Policy |
| cia | Central Intelligence Agency |
| cis | Commonwealth of Independent States |
| cjeu | Court of Justice of the European Union |
| CoE | Council of Europe |
| csce | Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe |
| csdp | Common Security and Defense Policy |
| csto | Collective Security Treaty Organization |
| cup | Cambridge University Press |
| dcfta | Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area |
| dpr | Donetsk People’s Republic |
| e.g. | exempli gratia |
| ec | European Community |
| echr | European Convention on Human Rights |
| ecj | European Court of Justice |
| ecr | European Court Reports |
| ecrml | European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages |
| ECtHR | European Court of Human Rights |
| eea | European Economic Area |
| eeas | European External Action Service |
| eez | Exclusive Economic Zone |
| efta | European Free Trade Association |
| ejil | European Journal of International Law |
| enp | European Neighborhood Policy |
Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque separatist organization) |
|
| etc. | et cetera |
| EU | European Union |
| eulex | European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo |
| eumm | European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia |
| eusr | European Union Special Representative |
| fcnm | Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities |
| fry | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Fn | Footnote (in some other work) |
| fsb | Federal Security Service (Russia) [Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации (ФСБ России)] |
| fta | Free trade agreement |
| gdr | German Democratic Republic |
| gssr | Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic |
| hcnm | High Commissioner for National Minorities |
| hmg | Her Majesty’s Government |
| i.e. | id est |
| icao | International Civil Aviation Organization |
| icc | International Criminal Court |
| iccpr | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
| icerd | International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination |
| icescr | International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
| icg | International Crisis Group |
| icis | International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty |
| icj | International Court of Justice |
| iclq | The International and Comparative Law Quarterly |
| icty | International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia |
| idp | Internally displaced person |
| ifsh | Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg |
| ihl | International Humanitarian Law |
| ihrl | International Human Rights Law |
| iiffmcg | Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia |
| iiss | International Institute for Strategic Studies |
| ilc | International Law Commission |
| imf | International Monetary Fund |
| interpol | International Criminal Police Organization |
| ipc | Immovable Property Commission |
International Relations |
|
| jcc | Joint Control Commission |
| jpkf | Join Peacekeeping Force |
| kla | Kosovo Liberation Army |
| lit | litera |
| lpr | Lugansk People’s Republic |
| map | Membership Action Plan |
| mc | Montevideo Convention |
| mep | Member of the European Parliament |
| mlc | Movement for the Liberation of the Congo |
| mlr | The Modern Law Review |
| mpil | Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law |
| n | footnote in this work |
| nato | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| ngo | Non-Governmental Organization |
| nkao | Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast |
| nkr | Nagorno-Karabakh Republic |
| oas | Organization of American States |
| oau | Organization of African Unity |
| oj | Official Journal |
| osce | Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe |
| oup | Oxford University Press |
| P5 | Permanent members of the unsc |
| pace | Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe |
| para | paragraph |
| pca | Partnership and Cooperation Agreement |
| pcij | Permanent Court of International Justice |
| PCtA | Permanent Court of Arbitration |
| plo | Palestine Liberation Organization |
| prc | People’s Republic of China |
| R2P | Responsibility to Protect |
| rf | Russian Federation |
| riaa | Reports of International Arbitral Awards |
| roc | Republic of China (Taiwan) |
| rsfsr | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic |
| saa | Stabilization and Association Agreement |
| sais | Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies |
| sar | Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong) |
| serac | Social and Economic Rights Action Center |
| sfry | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
South Ossetia |
|
| soao | South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast |
| ssr | Soviet Socialist Republic |
| tbkp | Türkiye Birlesik Komünist Partisi (United Communist Party of Turkey) |
| teu | Treaty on European Union |
| tfeu | Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union |
| trnc | Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus |
| tsfsr | Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| UN | United Nations |
| unesco | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| unga | United Nations General Assembly |
| unhr | Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| unmik | United Nations Interim Mission in Kosovo |
| unomig | UN Observer Mission in Georgia |
| unosom | United Nations Operation in Somalia |
| unpo | Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization |
| unsc | United Nations Security Council |
| untaet | United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor |
| US | United States |
| usd | US Dollar |
| ussr | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| vclt | Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties |
| vcssrt | Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of Treaties |
| wto | World Trade Organization |
| wwii | World War ii |
| ZaöRV | Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht |