TY - BOOK AU - Crawford,James TI - {The} creation of states in international law SN - 0198260024 U1 - 341.26 22 PY - 2006///. CY - Oxford: , New York PB - Clarendon Press, , Oxford University Press KW - Newly independent states KW - Sovereignty KW - State succession KW - International law N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [760]-850) and index; -- The concept of statehood in international law -- Statehood and recognition -- The criteria for statehood : statehood as effectiveness -- International law conditions for the creation of states -- Issues of statehood before United Nations organs -- The criteria for statehood applied : some special cases -- Modes of the creation of states in international law -- Original acquisition and problems of statehood -- Dependent states and other dependent entities -- Devolution -- Secession -- Divided states and reunification -- Unions and federations of states -- The creation of states in international organizations -- International dispositive powers -- Mandates and trust territories -- Non-self-governing territories : the law and practice of decolonization -- Issues of commencement, continuity and extinction -- The commencement of states -- Problems of identity, continuity and reversion -- The extinction of states ER -