Recognizing states [[electronic resource] ] : international society and the establishment of new states since 1776 / / Mikulas Fabry

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465124803321
• Autore: Fabry Mikulas
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 0-19-157316-7; 1-282-49061-3; 9786612490613
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Disciplina: 341.26
• Soggetti: State succession - History; Recognition (International law) - History; Legitimacy of governments; Self-determination, National; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-243) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Objectives and Approach of the Book; Recognizing New States: General Findings; Recognizing New States and Self-Determination of Peoples; International Society Scholarship on Recognizing States; Structure of the Book; 1. State Recognition Prior to 1815; Recognizing the United States of America; The French Revolution and the Congress of Vienna; Conclusion; 2. New States in Latin America; Spanish American Revolutions; US Recognition of Spanish American Republics; British Recognition of Spanish American Republics; Recognizing BrazilUti Possidetis Juris; Conclusion; 3. New States in Nineteenth-Century Europe; The Area of the Vienna Settlement; Recognizing Belgium; Italian Unification; German Unification; Ottoman Europe; Recognizing Greece; Recognizing Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro; Conclusion; 4. New States Between 1918 and 1945; Woodrow Wilson and Self-Determination as a Positive International Right; Recognizing Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia; Recognizing States Emergent from the Russian Empire; The Stimson ; Doctrine of Non-Recognition; Conclusion; 5. New States in Decolonization After 1945; Decolonization and State RecognitionUti Possidetis Juris as the New "Dynastic Legitimacy"; Conclusion; 6. New States in the Post-Cold War Period; Recognition and Non-Recognition in the Former Soviet Union; Recognition and Non-Recognition in the Former SFRY; Justifying Territorial Integrity and Self-Determination of Peoples; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines recognition of new states, the practice historically employed to regulate membership in international society. The last twenty years have witnessed new or lingering demands for statehood in different areas of the world. The claims of some, like those of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Eritrea, Croatia, Georgia and East Timor, have achieved general recognition; those of others, like Kosovo, Tamil Eelam, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Somaliland, have not. However, even asmost of these claims gave rise to major conflicts and international controversies, the criteria for acknowledgment of