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

The concepts of statehood and self-determination provide the normative structure on which the international legal order is ultimately premised. As a system of l

The principle of self-determination has at heart the achievement of true representation and democracy based on the idea that the consent of the governed alone c

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 ex

Presents the legal cases for self-determination in East Timor, Kosovo, Chechnya, Georgia (South Ossetia and Abkhazia) and in South Sudan.