Table of contents
Foreword James Crawford;
Introduction Duncan French;
Part I. Statehood and Recognition:
1. Entities that can be states but do not claim to be Yael Ronen;
2. Unilateral declarations of independence in international law Jure Vidmar;
3. The myth of remedial secession Katherine Del Mar;
4. International responses to the secession attempts of Kosovo, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, 1989-2009 Grace Bolton;
5. The paradox of Kosovo's Parallel Legal Orders in the Reasoning of the Court's Advisory Opinion Alexandros X. M. Ntovas;
6. The politics of recognition: the question about the final status of Kosovo Jessica Almqvist;
7. Revisiting lessons on the new law of statehood: Palestinian independence in a post-Kosovo world Tamar Megiddo and Zohar Nevo;
8. Somaliland: scrambled by international law? Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto; Part II. Self-Determination:
9. The internal and external aspects of self-determination reconsidered James Summers;
10. Trading fish or human rights in Western Sahara? Self-determination, non-recognition and the EC-Morocco Fisheries Agreement Martin Dawidowicz;
11. Self-determination, peacemaking and peacebuilding: recent trends in African intrastate peace agreements Kelly Stathopoulou; 12. Can religious norms influence self-determination struggles, and with what implications for international law? Katja Samuel;
13. Self-determination, oil and Islam in the face of the League of Nations: the Mosul dispute and the 'non-European' legal terrain Mai Taha;
14. The question of indigenous peoples' rights: a time for reappraisal? Malgosia Fitzmaurice;
15. The Kanak indigenous peoples of New Caledonia: decolonisation and self-determination in practice Jacqui Zalcberg;
16. The ethnic dichotomy of 'self' and 'Other' within Europe: interwar minority protection in perspective Mohammad Shahabuddin; Part III. Tradition, Opportunities and Challenges: The Changing Nature of the State:
17. A monument, identity and nationhood: the case of the Old Bridge of Mostar Jadranka Petrovic;
18. The impact of supranationalism on state sovereignty from the perspective of the legitimacy of international organisations Eric De Brabandere;
19. Democracy out of instrumental reason? Global institutions and the promotion of liberal governance Charlotte Steinorth;
20. Federated entities in international law: disaggregating the federal state? Gleider I. Hernandez.