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…

Makonnen, Yilma Keywords: Africa | State succession | South West Africa | Mots clefs: Afrique | Succession d états | Sud-Ouest africain | ABSTRACT Yilma Makonnen, from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, builds his course on selected issues of State succession in Africa into three main chapters. The first concerns general problems of State succession, with particular emphasis on issues related to the definition, types of State succession and theories of State succession. The autho…

Zemanek, Karl Keywords: State succession | Mots clefs: Succession d états | ABSTRACT Karl Zemanek supports his presentation of modern problems of State succession on the analysis of relevant contemporary international practice. He attempts to isolate the typical forms of behavior and to measure the behavior according to the principles of international law for studying their legal meaning, since not all behaviors are custom creators. The author successively examines the succession in fact, succession to treat…

P. O’Connell, D. Keywords: Newly-independent states | State succession | Mots clefs: Etats nouveaux | Succession d états | ABSTRACT Da…

Cansacchi, Giorgio Keywords: State succession | Mots clefs: Succession d états | ABSTRACT Giorgio Cansacchi writes that the International Community is formed by a plurality of subjects that are neither perpetual nor immutable in their structure. The community, like any human society, is subjected to the universal law of life and death. International subjects become centers for attributing rights, duties, powers, and responsibilities; their legal relations do not end, however, in a moment, but continue, in ge…

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…

Stern, Brigitte Keywords: State succession | Mots clefs: Succession d états | ABSTRACT Brigitte Stern, Professor at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) starts her course on State Succession with a global overview in order to identify the terms of the discussion caused by the question of "State Succession": first of all the identification of the semantic framework, which leads Professor Stern to specify the vocabulary used, which she feels often lacks meticulousness (chapter I) ; identification of a…