State Failure, Sovereignty and Effectiveness : Legal Lessons from the Decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa.
- 1st ed.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 ON THE STATE AND STATE FAILURE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The State in International law -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The State within the International Legal Order -- 2.3. Statehood and Legal Personality -- 2.4. Recognition -- 2.5. The Criteria for Statehood -- 2.6. The Principle of Effectiveness: Some Preliminary Comments -- 2.7. Sovereignty -- 2.8. Application of the Criteria for Statehood: Questions of Continuity and Extinction -- 3. The Sociological and the Normative Conception of the State -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The Unity between Reality and Ideas -- 3.3. The Sociological Conception of the State -- 3.4. The Normative Conception of the State -- 3.5. The Empirical and the Juridical in Statehood -- 3.6. Legal-Formalism -- 3.7. Kelsen's Legal-Formalism -- 3.8. State Failure as a Test for the Authenticity of Values -- 4. State Failure -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Somalia -- 4.3. The Democratic Republic of the Congo -- 4.4. Liberia -- 4.5. Sierra Leone -- 4.6. On the Main Features of State Failure -- 4.7. The Essence of State Failure -- 4.8. Adding Some Perspective -- 3 AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOVEREIGNTY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Positive and Negative Sovereignty -- 3. The Decline of Colonialism and the Expansion of International Society -- 3.1. Colonialism as a Feature of the pre-Second World War Order -- 3.2. The Outlawing of Colonialism -- 3.3. Colonialism Abolished -- 3.4. Precipitate Decolonization -- 4. The New Game of Negative Sovereignty -- 4.1. The Re-coining of Statehood -- 4.2. Juridical Statehood -- 4.3. Some Particularities of the New Game -- 5. Juridical Statehood outside the Colonial Context: Why Africa is not 'Just Different' -- 6. Final Observations -- 4 THE ABANDONMENT OF EFFECTIVENESS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Swing of the Pendulum. 3. Dissolving the Unity between Reality and Ideas -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Effectiveness in International Law: General Discussion -- 4. Effectiveness and the Unity between Reality and Ideas -- 4.1. The Inevitable Relationship between the 'Is' and the 'Ought' -- 4.2. The Relationship between the 'Is' and the 'Ought' as an Expression of the Unity between Reality and Ideas -- 4.3. Effectiveness: The Unifying Factor -- 4.4. Unexpected Support: Kelsen's Normative Theory -- 5. Statehood, State Failure, and the Abandonment of Effectiveness -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Level One: The State as an Expression of Positive International Law -- 5.3. Level Two: The State as the Enforcer of International Law -- 5.4. Linking Levels One and Two -- 5 SOME ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF INHERENT WEAKNESS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. How Weak States Fail -- 2.1. Compensating for a Lack of Substance by Stressing Form -- 2.2. Sørensen's Insecurity Containers -- 2.3. From Weak Statehood to State Failure -- 2.4. The Failure to Respond -- 3. The Evasion of the Normative Character of International Law -- 3.1. State Failure as a Threat to International Constitutionalism -- 3.2. The Erosion of Accountability -- 3.3. The Cascading of Responsibility -- 4. Some Additional Observations -- 6 A LITTLE ORDER -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Restoring the Unity between Reality and Ideas -- 2.1. A Brief Note of Pessimism -- 2.2. Outlining the Foundations -- 2.3. Some Non-viable Options -- 3. Reviving the UN Trusteeship System for Failed States -- 3.1. Trust: Some General Observations -- 3.2. International Trusteeship -- 3.3. Some Tentative Considerations on a UN Trusteeship for Failed States -- 4. Withdrawal of Recognition -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. The Case of Somalia -- 4.3. The Absence of Government -- 4.4. Withdrawal of Recognition in International Law. 4.5. Withdrawing Recognition from Somalia: A Hypothetical Case -- 5. Self-Determination: The Final Hurdle -- 7 CONCLUSIONS -- 1. The Decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa -- 2. Recognition -- 3. Sovereignty -- 4. Effectiveness -- 5. State Failure -- 5.1. How It Came About -- 5.2. What It Essentially Is -- 5.3. What Can Be Done About It? -- 6. The General Perspective: Why Hobbes was Right -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
9781280915437
Legitimacy of governments -- Africa, Sub-Saharan. Political stability -- Africa, Sub-Saharan. Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government.