Statehood, Territory, and International Spaces /

Statehood, territory and international spaces are at the heart of a specific branch of international law: the international law of territory. International territorial disputes and their settlement are investigated from the standpoint of legal titles: acquisition and loss of territorial sovereignty,...

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Main Author: Distefano, Giovanni (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Nijhoff, 2025.

Series: International Law E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Queen Mary Studies in International Law ; 53.

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Call Number: KZ318.S77

Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Introductory Note to this Edition
  • Prolegomena: State, Sovereignty and Space
  • A State: The Monad of Contemporary Public International Law
  • B Territory
  • i The Different Components and the Characteristics of State Territory
  • ii The Legal Relationship between State and Territory: a Sampling of Theories on Territorial Sovereignty
  • iii State Succession and Territorial Changes
  • Part 1
  • The Technique Creation, Extinction and Modification of Title of Territorial Sovereignty
  • 1 The Concept of Legal Title
  • A The So-Called "Modes of Acquisition" of Title to Territory
  • B Towards a New Articulation of the Concept of Title to Territorial Sovereignty
  • C Strength or Relative Weight of Territorial Title: the 'Gradations' of Legal Title
  • 2 Acquisition and Loss of Title of Territorial Sovereignty by Conventional Juridical Act: The Territorial Treaty and Its Specificities
  • A The Principle of Stability and Permanence of Borders
  • B Nemo plus iuris ad alium transferre quam ipse haberet
  • C The Principle of the Relative Effect of Treaties
  • D Agreements with 'Native Rulers'
  • E The 'Plebiscite' as a Condition for the Validity of Territorial Change
  • 3 Acquisition and Loss of of the Title of Territorial Sovereignty by Juridical Fact
  • A Acquiescence
  • B Estoppel
  • C Tacit Agreement
  • i Tacit Agreement Modifying or Terminating Territorial Treaties
  • ii Tacit Agreement as an Autonomous Source of Territorial Titles
  • D Historical Consolidation of Territorial Titles or the "Complex Juridical Fact"
  • i The Concept and Its Genesis
  • ii Its Tormented Jurisprudential Life
  • 4 The (Presumptive) Dilemma between Formal Legal Title and Effectiveness
  • A The Effective Occupation of terra nullius
  • B The Paradigms of the Antinomy Legal Title ( titulus ) / Effectiveness ( modus )
  • i Immemorial Possession
  • ii Disputed Possession
  • iii Usucapion in International Law: a Highly Controversial Concept
  • Part 2
  • Territorial Polemology Territorial Titles in Light of Anomalous, Deviant and Borderline Situations
  • 5 Title of Territorial Sovereignty and the Threat or Use of Force
  • A Conquest, Forcible Annexation, debellatio
  • B Illegal Territorial Situations
  • i Recognition and "Adjudication" of Territories before 1945
  • ii The Invalidation of Illegal Territorial Situations and the "Adjudication" of Territories under the UN Charter (After 1945)
  • iii The Principle of the Inadmissibility of the Acquisition of Territory by Force and the Obligation of Non-recognition
  • 6 The Title of Territorial Sovereignty and the Principle of the Right of Peoples to Self-determination
  • A As a Basis for the Title of Territorial Sovereignty
  • i The Genesis of the Principle
  • ii Strengthening of the Principle and Extension of Its Scope of Application
  • iii The Institutional Dimension: Who Makes the Determination?
  • iv The Presumptive Contradiction with the Principle of  uti Possidetis
  • B Distinguished from Secession
  • i Successful Violent Secessions and the Birth of New Independent States: The Exception
  • ii Unsuccessful Violent Secessions: the Rule
  • iii Two (Currently) Controversial Cases: Kosovo and Crimea
  • C A (Truly) Sui-generis Case: Palestine (1998-2012-Present Day)
  • 7 The State in All Its States
  • A Puppet States
  • B De facto States
  • C Failed or "Failing" States
  • D Drowning States: Looming Deterritorialisation of Sovereignty?
  • Part 3
  • Territorial Irenicism Specific Territorial Situations and Regimes
  • 8 The Pertinacious Sovereignty: Traditional Territorial Regimes
  • A Divorce between ius nudum and exercitium iuris , as well as between Sovereignty and Ownership
  • i Divorce between Sovereignty and Its Exercise
  • ii Sovereignty and Ownership Rights
  • B Servitudes in International Law (Article 12 (1) vcss 1978)
  • C Objective Territorial Régimes (Article 12 (2) vcss 1978)
  • D Condominium and Coimperium
  • E Spheres of Influence
  • F Peaceful Occupation
  • G International Protectorates
  • i Notion
  • ii Forms
  • iii Some Specific Features
  • H Neutralised or Demilitarised Territories
  • i Demilitarisation of Territories
  • ii Neutralisation of States or Parts of their Territories
  • 9 The Deterritorialisation of Space: Indirect and Direct International Administrations
  • A The League of Nations Mandate System
  • i Origins, Concepts and Purposes
  • ii Typology of Mandates and Supervisory System
  • iii Travaux Préparatoires
  • iv The Juridical Context
  • v International and Municipal Case Law
  • B Trusteeship System of the United Nations
  • i The Succession of Mandates within the United Nations International Trusteeship Administration
  • ii Affinities and Differences with the International Trusteeship Administration Established by the UN Charter
  • iii The Legacy of the Mandate System in the UN Trusteeship Administration
  • C International Cities and Territories
  • i The Free City of Danzig
  • ii The Tangier International Zone
  • iii The Memel Territory
  • 10 The Direct International Administration of Territories
  • A Within the League of Nations
  • i The Saar Territory Governing Commission and Its Sequel after  wwii 
  • ii The Leticia Administration Commission (1933-1934)
  • B Direct International Administration by the UN: a Very Brief Sampling
  • Index.