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Statehood and the law of self-determination.
Although most international lawyers assumed that the distribution of the land surface of the earth between States was more or less final after the end of decolonization, recent practice has disproved this assumption. Eritrea separated from Ethiopia and new States were created out of the former Sovie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Table of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; PART I: STATEHOOD; CHAPTER 1 THE CONCEPTS OF 'SUBJECT OF LAW' AND 'PERSONALITY' IN INTERNATIONAL LAW; 1. Introduction; 2. The meaning of 'subject of international law' and 'international personality'; 3. Conclusion; CHAPTER 2 THE STATE AS AN INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PERSON; 1. Introduction; 2. The notion of the State; 3. Recognition of States and the acquisition of international personality; 4. The theories on recognition revisited.
- 5. Collective, implied, constitutive and obligatory recognition of statehood and admission to membership in the United Nations 6. Conclusions; CHAPTER 3 THE TRADITIONAL CRITERIA FOR STATEHOOD AND THE CONCEPT OF EFFECTIVENESS; 1. Introduction; 2. Statehood and the notion of effectiveness in international law; 3. The traditional criteria for statehood; 4. Recognition and the traditional criteria for statehood; 5. Retroactivity of recognition of statehood; 6. The moment of the commencement of statehood; 7. Conclusions.
- CHAPTER 4 THE OBLIGATION OF NON-RECOGNITION AND ADDITIONAL CRITERIA FOR STATEHOOD BASED ON LEGALITY 1. Introduction; 2. The prohibition of premature recognition; 3. The meaning of the doctrine of obligatory non-recognition; 4. The origin and development of the doctrine of obligatory non-recognition in practice; 5. State practice in the field of non-recognition of claims; 6. The character of the legal norms involved; 7. The legal basis of the obligation of non-recognition; 8. Modern criteria for statehood based on legality; 9. Limits to the obligation of non-recognition.
- 10. Non-recognition and the European Community Declaration on the Guidelines on the Recognition of New States in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union 11. Conclusions and observations; PART II: SELF-DETERMINATION; CHAPTER 5 THE EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRINCIPLE OF SELF-DETERMINATION: FROM THE AMERICAN AND FRENCH REVOLUTIONS TO THE ERA OF DECOLONIZATION; 1. Introduction; 2. Political and philosophical foundations; 3. From a political principle to a legal right; 4. Reflections and conclusions: raison d'être and core meaning of political self-determination.
- CHAPTER 6 THE POST-COLONIAL ERA: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SELF-DETERMINATION 1. Introduction; 2. Self-determination beyond decolonization; 3. The subject of internal self-determination; 4. Internal self-determination as a right under international law; 5. The right of external self-determination: meaning and exercise; 6. The principles of territorial integrity and uti possidetis; 7. Conclusions and observations; CHAPTER 7 SECESSION; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical approaches to a right of secession; 3. Acknowledgment of a right of secession.