Democratic Statehood in International Law : The Emergence of New States in Post-Cold War Practice


Jure. Vidmar
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
London : : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2013.
Omfang
1 online resource (302 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Prelims; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Table of Cases; Table of Materials; 1. Democracy and Statehood in International Law; 2. The Practice of Post-Cold War State Creations: The Statehood Criteria, Democracy and Human Rights; 3. Democratic Aspects of the Right of Self-Determination; 4. The Delimitation of New States and Limitations on the Will of the People; 5. Democratic Statehood: Conclusions; Bibliography; Index. - This book analyses the emerging practice in the post-Cold War era of the creation of a democratic political system along with the creation of new states. The existing literature either tends to conflate self-determination and democracy or dismisses the legal relevance of the emerging practice on the basis that democracy is not a statehood criterion. Such arguments are simplistic. The statehood criteria in contemporary international law are largely irrelevant and do not automatically or self-evidently determine whether or not an entity has emerged as a new state. The question to be asked, there
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ISBN
9781849464697

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