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 CHAPTER II--COMPULSIVE SETTLEMENT OF STATE DIFFERENCES I. _On Compulsive Means of Settlement of State Differences in General_ 26. Conception and kinds of Compulsive Means of Settlement 34 27. Compulsive Means in contradistinction to War 34 28. Compulsive Means in contradistinction to an Ultimatum and Demonstrations 35 II. _Retorsion_