The emergence of new states and independence movements after the Cold War has intensified the long-standing disagreement among international lawyers over the ri

The definitive study of the doctrine of self-determination of peoples.

This book sets out to answer the question of when a political entity becomes a state in international law, one of the foundational questions of the discipline.

The debate on indigenous rights has revealed some serious difficulties for current international law, posed mainly by different understandings of important conc

Analyzes the role of self-determination and territorial integrity in some of the most difficult decolonization cases.