TY  - BOOK
AU  - Raic,David
TI  - Statehood and the Law of Self-Determination
T2  - Developments in International Law
SN  - 9789047403388
AV  - KZ4002 .R35 2002
U1  - 341.26 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - Brill | Nijhoff
KW  - Juristische Person
KW  - Nation-state
KW  - Self-determination, National
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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 Soviet Union, the former Yugoslavia and the former Czechoslovakia. There is no reason to believe that these events form the end of the creation of new States. Numerous communities within existing States claim a right to full separate statehood on the basis of their entitlement to an alleged right to self-determination. However, in most cases, the international community rejected such claims to statehood, even if the territorial entity satisfied the traditional criteria for statehood. On the other hand, in other cases, including some of those mentioned above, the international community acknowledged the statehood of entities which clearly failed to meet these criteria. In the light of the above-mentioned developments, this book examines the modern law of statehood, and in particular the role of the law of self-determination in the process of the formation of States in international law. The study shows that the law of statehood has changed considerably since the establishment of the United Nations. It is argued that the law of self-determination is particularly relevant for explaining the international community's position regarding the general recognition, or the general denial, of statehood of different territorial entities under contemporary international law
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047403388
ER  -