TY - BOOK AU - Crawford,James TI - The creation of states in international law SN - 0198260024 (alk. paper) PY - 2006/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press KW - Sovereignty KW - State succession KW - Newly independent states N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [760]-850) 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip066/2006000256.html ER -