Table of Contents

Preface Introduction The Once-Great Debate and Its Rivals The Declaratory Preference Examined Doctrines of Recognition: Textual Evidence Criteria for Recognition or Criteria for Statehood? The Process of Recognition--An Unsolved Problem The Yugoslav Recognition Crisis Conclusion Cases, Statutes, and Treaties Cited Selected Bibliography Index

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Examines the long debate over the nature of state recognition in international law.

About the Author

THOMAS D. GRANT is a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University, where he is a junior member of Wolfson College. A member of the bars of Massachusetts, New York, and Washington, D.C., he received his JD from the Yale Law School and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. His articles have appeared in the Virginia Journal of International Law and Columbia Journal of Transnational Law among others.

Reviews

Grant is to be congratulated for recognizing and documenting the European movement toward a collective process of recognition.
*The American Journal of International Law*

[A]n extensive study of recognition in broader context.
*Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law*