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International law and the post-Soviet space. I, Essays on Chechnya and the Baltic States
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- Creator
- Thomas D. Grant ; with a foreword by Stephen M. Schwebel
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Stuttgart, Germany : ibidem-Verlag, [2019]
- ©2019
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (453 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9783838272795, 383827279X, 3838213017
- Intro -- Outline Contents-Volume I -- Foreword by Stephen M. Schwebel -- Table of Abbreviations -- Table of Cases -- Table of Treaties and Other Instruments -- Contents-Volume I -- Author's Preface -- Finding international law as a whole: The particular, the parochial, and the disputed -- Why a generalist international lawyer's view of the post-Soviet space? -- Works in context-and a work in progress -- Acknowledgements -- Part One: Chechnya in the Russian Federation -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Chechnya -- A. Historical background -- 1. Geography and people -- 2. The arrival of Russia and early resistance -- 3. Soviet period and mass deportation -- 4. Collapse of the USSR and the separation of Chechnya -- 5. The Chechen wars -- B. Putative statehood -- 1. The Chechen claim to independence -- 2. Territorial integrity and non-recognition of the independence claim -- 3. Ceasefire accords -- 4. Other effects in international relations and international law -- 5. Present situation and status of Chechnya in the Russian Federation -- C. Human rights and humanitarian law in the Chechen conflict -- 1. Council of Europe -- 2. The OSCE mission -- 3. UN subsidiary organs, treaty organs, and thematic rapporteurs -- 4. State practice -- 5. Chechnya in the European Court of Human Rights -- D. Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Select Documents -- Chapter 2 A Panel of Experts for Chechnya: Purposes and Prospects in Light of International Law -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chechnya before Russia -- 2.1 Land and people -- 2.2 Claimants to authority -- 3. Russia in Chechnya and Chechen responses -- 3.1 Early Russian involvement -- 3.2 Chechen resistance -- 3.3 The nineteenth-century Chechen state as response to Russia -- 3.4 External affairs of nineteenth-century Chechnya -- 3.5 Russian power in Chechnya in the twentieth century
- 4. Consequences of a determination of non-acquisition -- 4.1 Process of independence of Russia -- 4.2 Process of independence of the other eleven non-Russian republics -- 4.3 Process of independence of the Baltic republics -- 5. Russia and the Territory of Chechnya -- 5.1 Prescription -- 5.2 Prescription, Russia, and Chechnya -- 5.2.1 Duration -- 5.2.2 Protest by competing claimant to title -- 5.2.3 Protest by third States -- 5.3 Illegal use of force: A root of title? -- 5.3.1 Modern rejection of force as root of title -- 5.3.2 Intertemporal law and earlier views of force and territorial acquisition -- 5.4 Self-determination and territorial integrity -- 6. Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Afghanistan Recognises Chechnya -- Introduction -- I. International legal status of the Taliban regime -- II. Recognition from the margins: Earlier examples -- III. Diplomatic measures to deter recognition -- IV. Human rights and humanitarian law -- V. Humanitarian recognition -- A. Why recognise a State? -- B. Recognising humanitarian concern: Biafra and other cases -- C. Recognition as assistance -- Conclusion: Recognition and solidarity -- Part Two: The Baltic States -- Introduction -- Chapter 4 The Welles Declaration at Seventy-Five: Non-Recognition, Continuity, and New Challenges to International Law -- Introduction -- A. Recognition as decentralised response to change -- B. Non-recognition as response to unlawful change -- C. The Welles Declaration as antecedent to today's nonrecognition -- D. Non-recognition and State responsibility -- E. Fulfilling non-recognition then and now -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 United States Practice Relating to the Baltic States, 1940-2000 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Baltic independence -- 3. Soviet annexation and United States reaction -- 4. Non-recognition and the Cold War -- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Formal observance of Baltic independence -- 4.3. The Baltic legations -- 4.4. Restoration and United States practice -- 5. United States practice in the United Nations -- 6. Territorial status and individual rights: Competing agendas? -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. 'Absolute' non-recognition -- 6.3. War crimes and non-recognition -- 6.4. 'Qualified' non-recognition: Origins and practice -- 6.5. Territorial status in an era of human rights -- 7. Independence redux, statehood restored -- 8. Conclusions -- ANNEX: Treaties in Force between the United States of America and the Baltic States -- Estonia -- Latvia -- Lithuania -- Index -- Outline Contents-Volume II