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Author Grant, Thomas D.

Title International law and the post-Soviet space. II, Essays on Ukraine, intervention, and non-prolifieration / Thomas D. Grant.

Publication Info. Stuttgart : Ibidem Press, 2019.

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Summary This volume deals with legal issues concerning Russia's annexation of Crimea and intervention in the Donbas, so-called 'frozen conflicts' and 'hybrid warfare, ' the use of courts and tribunals to address armed aggression, and the implications of recent events for the security guarantees connected to nuclear nonproliferation. Continuing from the first volume, which contains Parts One and Two on Chechnya and the Baltic States, this book is comprised of Part Three--Ukraine and other Successor States: Territorial Integrity and its Challengers in the Post-Soviet Space; Part Four--Intervention and International Law; Part Five--Legal Proceedings and Unlawful Claims; and Part Six--Non-Proliferation after Budapest.
Contents Intro; Outline Contents-Volume II; Endorsements; Table of Abbreviations; Table of Cases; Table of Treaties and Other Instruments; Contents-Volume II; Part Three: Territorial Integrity and Its Challengers; Introduction; Chapter 6 Annexation of Crimea; I. Acts in two municipal legal orders; The putative emergence of a new State in Ukraine; Annexation in the Russian legal order; II. Self-determination and secession; Remedial secession and human rights in Crimea; Procedural conditions for secession; III. Crimea and the use of force; The Black Sea fleet agreements
Protection of nationals and/or co-ethnics abroadRegional stability; Invitation; Use of force in aid of self determination; Invalidity of claims to territory based on force; IV. The international response to annexation; State practice; General Assembly Resolution 68/262; Consequences of non-recognition of the annexation of Crimea; V. Conclusion; Chapter 7 Three Years after Annexation: Of 'Frozen Conflicts' and How to Characterise Crimea; I. Introduction; II. Crimea 2014; III. Developments concerning Crimea since 2014; A. State and international organisation practice
B. The human rights situationC. Preliminary examination by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court; IV. Crimea as an unlawful claim-but not a frozen conflict; A. Defining 'frozen conflict'; 1. Legal problems associated with frozen conflicts but not distinguishing them as a class; 2. The core criteria of 'frozen conflict'; B. Is Crimea a 'frozen conflict'?; 1. Absence of armed hostilities between a State and separatists; 2. Absence of a putative separatist entity; 3. Absence of formal ceasefire lines; 4. Absence of a dispute settlement process; V. Conclusion
Chapter 8 Frozen Conflicts and International LawIntroduction; I. 'Frozen conflict': Etymology; A. State practice; B. International organisation practice; C. The expression 'frozen conflict' in dispute settlement proceedings; D. International law writers; E. International relations writers; II. Defining 'frozen conflict'; A. Four conflicts; 1. Transdniestria; 2. Nagorno-Karabakh; 3. South Ossetia; 4. Abkhazia; B. Seven characteristics of the frozen conflict; 1. Hostilities between a State and separatists; 2. Changes in effective control of territory as a result of hostilities
3. Lines of separation with effective stability4. Lines of separation with (qualified) juridical stability; 5. Self-determination claims associated with the establishment of a putative State; 6. Non-recognition of the putative State; 7. Settlement process (sporadic and inconclusive); C. Legal problems associated with 'frozen conflicts'; 1. International responsibility; a. International responsibility of a State sponsoring insurrectionists; b. International responsibility of the insurrectionists; 2. Breach of ceasefire lines; 3. Armed bands and mercenaries
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Subject International law -- Former Soviet republics.
International law.
International law.
International law -- Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Essays on Ukraine, intervention, and non-prolifieration
ISBN 9783838272801 (electronic book)
3838272803 (electronic book)
9783838213026