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…

McWhinney, Edward Keywords: Right of self-determination | Secession | State succession | Mots clefs: Droit de libre disposition | Secession | Succession | ABSTRACT Edward McWhinney, Professor emeritus of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, retraces the historical origins of peoples' self-determination by taking as its starting point the national self-determination that can be traced back to the French revolution. The question of the self-determination of peoples is often resolved within the framework of the nation-st…