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100	1		_aKreijen, Gerard, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aState Failure, Sovereignty and Effectiveness : _bLegal Lessons from the Decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa / _cGerard Kreijen, Sir Robert Y. Jennings, QC.
246	3		_aLegal Lessons from the Decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa
264		1	_aLeiden; _aBoston : _bBrill | Nijhoff, _c2004.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
490	1		_aDevelopments in International Law ; _v50
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aForeword by Sir Robert Jennings -- 1 Introduction -- 2 On the State and State Failure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The State in International law -- 3. The Sociological and the Normative Conception of the State -- 4. State Failure -- 3 African Independence and the Transformation of Sovereignty -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Positive and Negative Sovereignty -- 3. The Decline of Colonialism and the Expansion of International Society -- 4. The New Game of Negative Sovereignty -- 5. Juridical Statehood outside the Colonial Context: Why Africa is not 'Just Different' -- 6. Final Observations -- 4 The Abandonment of Effectiveness -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Swing of the Pendulum -- 3. Dissolving the Unity between Reality and Ideas -- 4. Effectiveness and the Unity between Reality and Ideas -- 5. Statehood, State Failure, and the Abandonment of Effectiveness -- 5 Some Illustrations of the Consequences of Inherent Weakness -- 1. Introduction -- 2. How Weak States Fail -- 3. The Evasion of the Normative Character of International Law -- 4. Some Additional Observations -- 6 A Little Order -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Restoring the Unity between Reality and Ideas, 3. Reviving the UN Trusteeship System for Failed States -- 4. Withdrawal of Recognition -- 5. Self-Determination: The Final Hurdle -- 7 Conclusions -- 1. The Decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa -- 2. Recognition -- 3. Sovereignty -- 4. Effectiveness -- 5. State Failure -- 6. The General Perspective: Why Hobbes was Right, Index.
520			_aThis comprehensive study of State failure upholds that the collapse of States in sub-Saharan Africa is a self-inflicted problem caused by the abandonment of the principle of effectiveness during decolonization. On the one hand, the abandonment of effectiveness may have facilitated the recognition of the new African States, but on the other it did lead to the creation of States that were essentially powerless: some of which became utter failures. Written in a style both provocative and unorthodox and using convincing arguments, this study casts doubt on some of the most sacred principles of the modern doctrine of international law. It establishes that the declaratory theory of recognition cannot satisfactorily explain the continuing existence of failed States. It also demonstrates that the principled assertion of the right to self-determination as the basis for independence in Africa has turned the notion of sovereignty into a formal-legal figment without substance. This book is a plea for more realism in international law. Pensive pessimists in the tradition of Hobbes will probably love it. Idealists in the tradition of Grotius may hate it, but they will find it very difficult to reject its conclusions.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aFailed states _zAfrica, Sub-Saharan.
650		0	_aLegitimacy of governments _zAfrica, Sub-Saharan.
650		0	_aPolitical stability _zAfrica, Sub-Saharan.
651		0	_aAfrica, Sub-Saharan _xPolitics and government.
700	1		_aQC, Sir Robert Y. Jennings,, _eauthor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tState Failure, Sovereignty and Effectiveness : Legal Lessons from the Decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa. _dLeiden ; Boston : Brill | Nijhoff, 2004 _z9789004139657 _w(OCoLC)55018572
830		0	_aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
830		0	_aDevelopments in International Law ; _v50.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047405856
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