{"product_id":"democratic-statehood-in-international-law-jure-vidmar-9781849464697","title":"Democratic Statehood in International Law: The Emergence of New States in Post-Cold War Practice","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book analyses the emerging practice in the post-Cold War era of the creation of a democratic political system along with the creation of new states. The existing literature either tends to conflate self-determination and democracy or dismisses the legal relevance of the emerging practice on the basis that democracy is not a statehood criterion. Such arguments are simplistic. The statehood criteria in contemporary international law are largely irrelevant and do not automatically or self-evidently determine whether or not an entity has emerged as a new state. The question to be asked, therefore, is not whether democracy has become a statehood criterion. The emergence of new states is rather a law-governed political process in which certain requirements regarding the type of a government may be imposed internationally. And in this process the introduction of a democratic political system is equally as relevant or irrelevant as the statehood criteria. The book demonstrates that via the right of self-determination the law of statehood requires state creation to be a democratic process, but that this requirement should not be interpreted too broadly. The democratic process in this context governs independence referenda and does not interfere with the choice of a political system. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book has been awarded Joint Second Prize for the 2014 Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jure Vidmar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1849464693\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781849464697\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.00d","brand":"Jure Vidmar","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44321545322751,"sku":"9781849464697","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0ab8ace5-fc09-4b41-bf08-f51fb86f5cb9.jpg?v=1696331456","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/democratic-statehood-in-international-law-jure-vidmar-9781849464697","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}