TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vidmar,Jure
TI  - Democratic statehood in international law: the emergence of new states in post-Cold War practice 
SN  - 9781472566485
U1  - 341.26 
KW  - Democracy
KW  - International law
KW  - Self-determination, National
KW  - State, The
N1  - Bloomsbury Pub Ebook; Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-265) and index
N2  - "This book analyses the emerging practice in the post-Cold War era of the creation of a democratic political system along with the creation of new states. The existing literature either tends to conflate self-determination and democracy or dismisses the legal relevance of the emerging practice on the basis that democracy is not a statehood criterion. Such arguments are simplistic. The statehood criteria in contemporary international law are largely irrelevant and do not automatically or self-evidently determine whether or not an entity has emerged as a new state. The question to be asked, therefore, is not whether democracy has become a statehood criterion. The emergence of new states is rather a law-governed political process in which certain requirements regarding the type of a government may be imposed internationally. And in this process the introduction of a democratic political system is equally as relevant or irrelevant as the statehood criteria. The book demonstrates that via the right of self-determination the law of statehood requires state creation to be a democratic process, but that this requirement should not be interpreted too broadly. The democratic process in this context governs independence referenda and does not interfere with the choice of a political system."--Bloomsbury Publishing
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472566485?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
ER  -