Statehood and Self-Determination - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vii

Contributors

pp viii-xiv

Foreword

pp xv-xvi

Preface

pp xvii-xx

Table of cases

pp xxi-xxv

Table of treaties and major documents

pp xxvi-xlvi

List of principal abbreviations

pp xlvii-l

Introduction

pp 1-20

Part I - Statehood and recognition

pp 21-226

1 - Entities that can be states but do notclaim to be

pp 23-59

2 - Unilateral declarations of independence in international law

pp 60-78

3 - The myth of remedial secession

pp 79-108

4 - International responses to the secession attempts of Kosovo, Abkhazia and South Ossetia 1989–2009

pp 109-138

5 - The paradox ofKosovo’s parallel legal orders in the reasoning of the Court’s Advisory Opinion

pp 139-164

6 - Thepolitics of recognition: The question about the final status of Kosovo

pp 165-186

7 - Revisiting lessons on the new law of statehood: Palestinian independence in a post-Kosovo world

pp 187-207

8 - Somaliland: scrambled byinternational law?

pp 208-226

Part II - Self-determination

pp 227-426

9 - The internal and external aspects of self-determination reconsidered

pp 229-249

10 - Trading fish or human rights in Western Sahara? Self-determination, non-recognition and the EC–Morocco Fisheries Agreement

pp 250-276

11 - Self-determination, peacemaking and peace-building: recent trends in African intrastate peace agreements

pp 277-301

12 - Can religious norms influence self-determination struggles, and with what implications for international law?

pp 302-323

13 - Self-determination, oil and Islam in the face of the League of Nations: the Mosul Dispute and the ‘non-European’ legal terrain

pp 324-348

14 - The question of indigenous peoples’ rights: a time for reappraisal?

pp 349-376

15 - The Kanak indigenous peoples of New Caledonia: decolonization and self-determination in practice

pp 377-406

16 - Theethnic dichotomy of ‘self’ and ‘other’ within Europe: inter-war minority protection in perspective

pp 407-426

Part III - Tradition, opportunities and challenges: the changing nature of the state

pp 427-512