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The ECMI Library is an independent collection of books, journals, and grey literature of more than 3,000 items covering many aspects of minority issues. The highly specialized collection offers public access to a variety of materials in more than twenty languages on interethnic relations, language and cultural diversity issues and ethnic conflict in Europe.
The Library includes a useful reference section and a considerable number of published and unpublished reports, and is especially strong in the area of minority protection with regards to international law. The ECMI Library is also unique in that it includes an ever-growing number of annual reports of Ombudsman offices around the world, which provide insight into the human rights situation in many countries. Current periodical and newspaper subscriptions reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ECMI research, and reference services are provided both in-house and for the general public.
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| Author |
Crawford, James |
|---|---|
| Title | The Creation of States in International Law |
| Parallel title / Title of generic unit | Second Edition |
| Subject | |
| Publisher | Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | lxxii, 870 |
| Description | Statehood in the early 21st century remains as much a central problem as it was in 1979 when the first edition of Thre Creation of States in International Law was published. As Rhodesia, Namibia, the South African Homelands and Taiwan then were subjects of acute concern, today governments, international organizations, and other institutions are seized of such amatters as the membership of Cyprus in the European Union, application of the Geneva Conventions to Afghanistan, a final settlement for Kosovo, and, still, relations between China and Taiwan. All of these, and many other disputed situations, are inseparable from the nature of statehood and its application in practice. The remarkable increase in the number of States in the 20th century did not abate in the twenty five years following publication of James Crawford's landmark study, which was awarded the American Society of International Law Prize for Creative Scholarship in 1981. The independence of many small territories comprising the 'residue' of the European colonial empires alone accounts for a major increase in States since 1979; while the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the USSR in the early 1990s further augmented the ranks. With these developments, the practice of States and international organizations has developed by substantial measure in respect of self-determination, secession, succession, recognition, de-colonization and several other fields. Combining a general argument as to the normative significance of statehood with analysis of numerous specific cases, this fully revised and expanded second edition gives a comprehensive account of the develoopments which have led to the birth of so many new States. |
| Type | Book |
| Note | Includes bibliography and index. CONTENTS: The Concept of Statehood in International Law / Modes of the Creation of States in International Law / The Creation of States in International Organizations / Issues of Commencement, Continuity and Extinction / Conclusions / Appendix 1: List of States and Territorial Entities Proximate to States / Appendix 2: League Mandates and United Nations Trusteeships / Appendix 3: The United Nations and Non-Self-Governing Territories, 1946 to 2005 / Appendix 4: Consideration by the International Law Commission of the Topic of Statehood (1996) / Select Bibliography / Index |
| Language | English |
| Series | |
| Identifier | 9780199228423 |
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How to find the ECMI Library?
The ECMI Library is accessible to staff, students and the general public at the:
Danish Central Library (next to The Schleswig Collection)
Norderstraße 59
Flensburg.
Materials from the ECMI Library may not be loaned out, but can be consulted in the Danish library on the following days:
Monday - Friday: 10 am - 7 pm
Saturday: 10 am - 2 pm
For any other inquiries, please contact the ECMI Librarian at library@
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