The Grey Areas of Self-Determination: Double Standard of Recognition in International Law
Journal: SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología
Year: 2025

This paper critically examines the international legal and political precedents surroundingthe principle of self-determination, beginning with the dissolution of Yugoslavia, particularlythe Kosovo War, and juxtaposes it with the global responses to analogous separatist claimsin Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, as well as the ongoing situations inPalestine and Somaliland. Through a comparative analysis of these cases, the paper exposesthe international community’s selective reco