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Democratic Legitimacy as a Criterion for the Recognition of Governments: A Response to Professor Erika de Wet

Part of: Recognition of Governments and Customary International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor*
Affiliation:
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
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Symposium: Recognition of Governments and Customary International Law
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AJIL Unbound , Volume 108 , 2014 , pp. 228 - 232
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

References

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2 See, e.g., Murphy, Sean D., Democratic Legitimacy and the Recognition of States and Governments, 48 Int’l & Comp. L. Q. 545 (1999)Google Scholar.

3 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, GA Res. 2200A (XXI), U.N. Doc. A/6316 (1966) (entered into force Mar. 23, 1976).

4 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Dec. 16, 1966.

5 John Dugard, Recognition and the United Nations (1987); Okafor, Obiora C., The Global Process of Legitimation and the Legitimacy of Global Governance, 14 Ariz. J. Int’l & Comp. L. 117 (1997)Google Scholar.

6 See, e.g., the conceptual framework underpinning the discussion in Kirgis, Frederic L. Jr., Comment: The Degrees of Self-Determination in the United Nations Era, 88 AJIL 304 (1994)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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8 See Dugard supra note 5; Okafor supra note 5.

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