Full Description
The Hague Academy Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations devoted its Session of 1996 to the Succession of States, including for the second time this topic in its programme, but in a context very different from that in which the 1962 Session had been held. Following the great wave of decolonizations, the studies conducted in the Centre in 1962 had constituted a kind of prologue to the lengthy deliberations by the International Law Commission that led to the 1978 Convention on Succession of States in Respect of Treaties and the 1983 Convention on Succession of States in Respect of State Property, Archives and Debts. The less than enthusiastic reception that these Conventions had received from the international community seemed to condemn them into oblivion. The extraordinary political developments in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s, however, suddenly focused interest in these questions anew. As the theme of the Session indicates, it became possible to examine the question of `codification tested against these facts'.Twenty-four participants from a French and an English section conducted this task with passion and talent. The present volume reproduces some of the best reports in an updated and technically harmonized form.Originally published as Colloques / Workshops - Law Books of the Academy, Volume 20.
Contents
Premiere partiede l'Equite dans le Droit de la Succession d'Etats. 2. State Succession, Identity/Continuity and Membership in the United Nations. 3. State Succession and International Financial Organizations. 4. Current Questions of State Succession Relating to Multilateral Treaties. 5. Identite et Succession d'Etats aux Instruments Conventionnels Relatifs au Desarmement et a la Maitrise des Armements. 6. Succession aux Traites et Droits de l'Homme: Vers la Reconnaissance d'une Protection Ininterrompue des Individus. 7. Regimes de Frontieres et Autres Reimes Territoriaux Face a la Succession D'Etats. 8. Les Problemes de Succession d'Etats dans l'Affaire de la Determination de la Frontiere Maritime Entre la Guinee-Bissau et la Senegal. 9. State Succession and the Nationality of Natural Persons: Facts and Possible Codification. 10. Rights of Private Persons on State Succession: An Approach to the Most Recent Cases. Deuxieme partie: Etudes nationales. 1. The Dissolution of the Soviet Union in the Light of the 1978 Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of Treaties. 2. The Division of State Property in the Case of State Succession in the Former Soviet Union. 3. A Propos de Tros Questions Recurrentes en Matiere de Succession d'Etats: Application au Cas Yougoslave. 4. The Bursting of Yugoslavia: An Approach to Practice Regarding State Succession. Bibliographie selective. Selected Bibliography. Tables. Indexes.
