The creation of states in international law /
Crawford, James,1948-
Oxford : Clarendon Press,
2006.
Includes bibliography and index.
Statehood and recognition -- The criteria for statehood: statehood as effectiveness -- International law conditions for the creation of states -- Issues of statehood before United Nations organs -- The criteria for statehood applied: some special cases -- Original acquisition and problems of statehood -- Dependent states and other dependent entities -- Devolution -- Secession -- Divided states and reunification -- Unions and federations of states -- International dispositive powers -- Mandates and trust territories -- Non-self-governing territories: the law and practice of decolonization -- The commencement of states -- Problems of identity, continuity and reversion -- The extinction of states.
Sovereignty.
State succession.
Newly independent states.