Ukraine, Crimea and New International Law: Balancing International Law with Arguments Drawn from History
Journal: Chinese Journal of International Law
Year: 2015

The Ukrainian crisis poses a new challenge of an extraordinary dimension to traditional international law. Many well-established concepts of international law have been put to the test. For some, in the wake of the &lt;it&gt;Kosovo&lt;/it&gt; advisory opinion a new international law is in the making and the Ukrainian crisis is only a further episode in a longer lasting process pointing in the same direction. For others, the Ukraine case is absolutely particular and in this context historical con