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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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill | Nijhoff,
2025.
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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.