The creation of states in international law

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crawford, James , 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2007
Edition:2nd ed
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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