Bedjaoui, Mohammed Keywords: Newly-independent states | State succession | Mots clefs: Etats nouveaux | Succession d états | ABSTRACT Mohammed Bedjaoui writes that decolonization adds complexity of the succession of States and to the perplexity of the people by a double contradictory contribution: on one hand a desired continuity, reassuring, but deceptively misleading, on the other hand, a desired break, impatient, but partially illusory. How do you interpret all the contrary signs? Can we say if, whether, how, a…

A. Falk, Richard Keywords: Newly-independent states | Public international law | Mots clefs: Etats nouveaux | Droit international public | ABSTRACT The active participation of the newly independent African and Asian States in international life is of great significance to the international legal order. Richard Falk's course assesses this significance mainly from the perspective of the new states. La participation active des Etats d'Afrique et d'Asie nouvellement indépendants à la vie internationale recèle une grande signification pour l'ordre juridique…

P. O’Connell, D. Keywords: Newly-independent states | State succession | Mots clefs: Etats nouveaux | Succession d états | ABSTRACT Daniel O'connel points out that the accession of many former colonial territories to independence has drawn the attention of jurists of international law to the problem of State succession. The author proposes in his course an in-depth and a systematic study of the problem, focuses first on the theory of State succession and the place of State succession in the theory of State, the met…

Degan, Vladimir-Djuro Keywords: Europe | Newly-independent states | Recognition of states | State succession | Mots clefs: Europe | Etats nouveaux | Reconnaissance des Etats | Succession d états | ABSTRACT Vladimir-Djuro Degan, Professor Emeritus of the University of Rijeka, asks a certain number of questions in the introduction to his course: is there such a thing as an international community at the present time, and can it be claimed that this community is in itself a subject of international law? What is the importance of…