If governments of Australia agreed to share power with Aboriginal people, what would the result be? And if Australia was to have a settlement or a treaty with A

This collection of essays focusses on the following concepts: sovereignty (the unique, intangible and yet essential characteristic of states), statehood (what i

Although most international lawyers assumed that the distribution of the land surface of the earth between States was more or less final after the end of decolo

From Kurdistan to Somaliland, Xinjiang to South Yemen, all secessionist movements hope to secure newly independent states of their own. Most will not prevail. T

Democratic and consolidated states are taken as the model for effective rule-making and service provision. In contrast, this book argues that good governance is