International Law and the Search for Normative Order

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Brill Archive, 1971 - Law - 142 pages
The present study is concerned with the development and the applica tions of legal norms to situations of civil strife. It also deals in a less intensive way with problems of adjustment of these norms when the ambiance of the system changes. In particular it deals with the con cept of belligerent recognition, a standard well-suited to the needs of the international systeum nder a balance of power arrangement and to what extent this norm, which became fully developed during the nineteenth century, has been altered to meet the needs of the new international system which has been called a loose bipolar system. Revolution has been a classic theme of social and political thinkers throughout history. Some have regarded revolutions as completely unjustifiable, while others view them as a force for progress, if not the sole agent for major social adjustment. Political evolutionists re gard revolutions which erupt in social violence as necessary social con ditioning, as a way of selecting the political elite. Those who regard social violence as healthy and good, proceed to layout prudential rules for the conduct and successful conclusion of revolutions. Those who regard social violence as unhealthy and bad, tend to stress the norms of "law and order"; and to hurl at revolutionists the imprecations of a moral law which enjoins necessary obedience to authority. The present treatise pursues none of these interesting possibilities.

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Contents

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PRE1861 CIVIL CONFLICTS WHICH INDICATED
18
METHODS OF ACCORDING BELLIGERENT
33
CRITERIA FOR TIMING A GRANT OF BELLIGERENCE
48
The Question of a Right of Recognition
62
Criteria for Timing a Grant of Belligerent Recognition
72
SUCCESSION TO TREATY RESPONSIBILITIES IN CIVIL
84
Effects of Recognition of Belligerency on Treaty Succession
90
Treaty Succession in Internal Wars Since The American Civil War
96
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98
Reasons for the NonUse of Belligerent Recognition
102
Belligerent Recognition and Desuetude
108
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON CURRENT PRACTICE
115
INDEX
140
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