Democratic statehood in international law : the emergence of new states in post-Cold War practice
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Democratic statehood in international law : the emergence of new states in post-Cold War practice
(Studies in international law, v. 46)
Hart, 2013
- : hardback
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  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [255]-265
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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, therefore, is not whether democracy has become a statehood criterion. The emergence of new states is rather a law-governed political process in which certain requirements regarding the type of a government may be imposed internationally. And in this process the introduction of a democratic political system is equally as relevant or irrelevant as the statehood criteria. The book demonstrates that via the right of self-determination the law of statehood requires state creation to be a democratic process, but that this requirement should not be interpreted too broadly. The democratic process in this context governs independence referenda and does not interfere with the choice of a political system.
This book has been awarded Joint Second Prize for the 2014 Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Democracy and Statehood in International Law
1 Introduction
2 International Law and (Non-)democratic States
3 The Emergence of States in International Law
Chapter 2 The Practice of Post-Cold War State Creations: The Statehood Criteria, Democracy and Human Rights
1 Introduction
2 The Emergence of States as a Result of Domestic Consensus
3 The EC Guidelines and EC Declaration: Beyond the Statehood Criteria
4 The Independence of Montenegro
5 International State-making and Democracy-making in East Timor
6 Kosovo as an Attempt at Informal Collective Creation of a Democratic State
7 Conclusion
Chapter 3 Democratic Aspects of the Right of Self-Determination
1 Introduction
2 Self-determination: Development, Democratic Pedigree and Limitations
3 Self-determination, Governmental Representativeness and Multiparty Democracy
4 The Right of Self-determination, Political Participation and Choice of Political System
5 Democracy and the exercise of the Right of Self-determination in its Internal Mode
6 The 'Safeguard Clause' and Remedial Secession
7 Democratic Principles and External Exercise of the Right of Self-determination
8 Conclusion
Chapter 4 Delimitation of New States and Limitations on the Will of the People
1 Introduction
2 The Creation of New States and the Uti Possidetis Principle
3 The Nature and Relevance of Internal Boundaries in the Post-1990 Practice of New International Delimitation
4 Conclusion
Chapter 5 Democratic Statehood: Conclusions
1 Democracy and Statehood: An Analysis from Two Perspectives
2 The Emergence of New States in the Post-Cold War Practice
3 Contemporary International Practice and the Legal Status of the Statehood Criteria
4 The Operation of and Limits on Democratic Principles Within the Right of Self-Determination
5 Final Remarks: The Place of Democracy within the Process of State Creation
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