Democratic Statehood in International Law

Jure Vidmar is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law and a Research Fellow of St John's College, University of Oxford.

• Chapter 1 Democracy and Statehood in International Law 1 Introduction 2 International Law and (Non-)democratic States 3 The Emergence of States in International Law Chapter 2 The Practice of Post-Cold War State Creations: The Statehood Criteria, Democracy and Human Rights 1 Introduction 2 The Emergence of States as a Result of Domestic Consensus 3 The EC Guidelines and EC Declaration: Beyond the Statehood Criteria 4 The Independence of Montenegro 5 International State-making and Democracy-making in East Timor 6 Kosovo as an Attempt at Informal Collective Creation of a Democratic State 7 Conclusion Chapter 3 Democratic Aspects of the Right of Self-Determination 1 Introduction 2 Self-determination: Development, Democratic Pedigree and Limitations 3 Self-determination, Governmental Representativeness and Multiparty Democracy 4 The Right of Self-determination, Political Participation and Choice of Political System 5 Democracy and the exercise of the Right of Self-determination in its Internal Mode 6 The 'Safeguard Clause' and Remedial Secession 7 Democratic Principles and External Exercise of the Right of Self-determination 8 Conclusion Chapter 4 Delimitation of New States and Limitations on the Will of the People 1 Introduction 2 The Creation of New States and the Uti Possidetis Principle 3 The Nature and Relevance of Internal Boundaries in the Post-1990 Practice of New International Delimitation 4 Conclusion Chapter 5 Democratic Statehood: Conclusions 1 Democracy and Statehood: An Analysis from Two Perspectives 2 The Emergence of New States in the Post-Cold War Practice 3 Contemporary International Practice and the Legal Status of the Statehood Criteria 4 The Operation of and Limits on Democratic Principles Within the Right of Self-Determination 5 Final Remarks: The Place of Democracy within the Process of State Creation

..up-to-date, systematic and authoritative coverage of state creation and recognition in the international order. The book caps its author's series of substantial contributions to the literature on this topic.