Antonio Cassese

Self-Determination of Peoples

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces how the political ideal of self-determination has turned into an international legal standard, assessing its impact on existing legal norms through scrutiny of State practice as shown in national digests and UN proceedings. This primarily legal inquiry looks at law within its historical and political context, illuminating the interplay of law and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9780521637527
• ISBN-10: 052163752X
• Artikelnr.: 21927146

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; Part I. The Historical Background: 2. Self-determination
as an international political postulate; Part II. Self-Determination
Becomes an International Legal Standard: 3. Treaty law; 4. The emergence of
customary rules: external self-determination; 5. The emergence of customary
rules: internal self-determination; 6. The holders of the right of
self-determination and the means of ensuring observance of the right; 7.
Comparing customary and treaty law; Part III. The Right to
Self-Determination in Operation: 8. The impact of self-determination on
traditional international law; 9. Testing international law - some
particularly controversial issues; 10. The role of self-determination in
the recent break-up of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia; Part IV. The New
Trends Emerging in the World Community: 11. Attempts at expanding
self-determination; Part V. General Stocktaking: 12. Recapitulation and
conclusion.