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Statehood and Self-Determination : Reconciling Tradition and Modernity in International Law.
Provides detailed analysis of fundamental issues of statehood and recognition, self-determination, and the rights of Indigenous peoples.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Table of cases; Table of treaties and major documents; List of principal abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Statehood and recognition; Part II: Self-determination; Part III: Tradition, opportunities and challenges: the changing nature of the state; Conclusion; Part I Statehood and recognition; 1 Entities that can be states but do not claim to be; I. Introduction; II. The entities in question; III. The significance of state-like conduct by quasi-states; 1. The laws on the use of force; 2. International human rights law.
- 4. International criminal law IV. Bridging the gap; 1. Introduction; 2. 'If it walks like a duck ... ': imposing statehood on quasi-states; 3. Implicit claims of statehood; 4. Statehood-for-a-limited-purpose; V. Conclusion; 2 Unilateral declarations of independence in international law; I. Introduction; II. Declarations of independence and effectiveness; III. Separating the illegality and unilateral character of declarations of independence; IV. Territorial integrity of states and unilateral declarations of independence; 1. The territorial integrity of states and 'internal' self-determination.
- 2. The territorial integrity of states and obligations for third states V. Conclusion; 3 The myth of remedial secession; I. Introduction; II. Legal myth of the doctrine of remedial secession; 1. Remedial secession does not form part of the international law of self-determination; 2. Myth that the legal basis of remedial secession is the saving clause contained in the Declaration on Friendly Relations; III. Problems relating to the practical implementation of remedial secession; 1. Identifying a 'people' who can exercise remedial secession.
- 2. Identification of the critical date for an exercise of remedial secession IV. Misguided moral value of remedial secession; V. Conclusion; 4 International responses to the secession attempts of Kosovo, Abkhazia and South Ossetia 1989-2009; I. Introduction; II. The bellicose phase and the remedial conditions; 1. Tracing remedial secession in Kosovo 1989-2009; 1.1 The abolition of autonomy and a sustained denial of internal self-determination; 1.2 Human rights violations during the 1990s; 1.3 International intervention; 1.4 The exhaustion of negotiations.
- 1.5 Normative undertaking from the seceding entity1.6 Support of powerful countries; 2. Abkhazia and South Ossetia: Russia's (mis)application of remedial secession; 2.1 Contested sovereignties 1989-91: the abolition of autonomy?; 2.2 'Ethnic cleansing' and the 1991-4 wars; 2.3 The extent of international intervention in Abkhazia and South Ossetia; 2.4 International mediation and the exhaustion of negotiations; 2.5 The August 2008 War in South Ossetia; 2.6 International responses to Russia's recognition; III. Conclusion.