The creation of states in international law
Presents a comprehensive treatment of statehood in the field of international law. While retaining an enormous wealth of historical material of continuing validity, this edition tackles problems and questions such as the international disposition of territory in Kosovo and East Timor, claims for secession in Chechnya and Quebec, and more
Print Book, English, 2006
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 2006
lxxii, 870 pages ; 25 cm
9780198260028, 9780199228423, 0198260024, 0199228426
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Statehood and recognition
The criteria for statehood : statehood as effectiveness
International law conditions for the creation of states
Issues of statehood before United Nations organs
The criteria for statehood applied : some special cases
Original acquisition and problems of statehood
Dependent states and other dependent entities
Devolution
Secession
Divided states and reunification
Unions and federations of states
International dispositive powers
Mandates and trust territories
Non-self-governing territories : the law and practice of decolonization
The commencement of states
Problems of identity, continuity and reversion
The extinction of states