The Dissolution of Yugoslavia and the Badinter Arbitration Commission

The Dissolution of Yugoslavia and the Badinter Arbitration Commission
Author: Steve Terrett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1351762869

This title was first published in 2000: Yugoslavia’s dissolved at a time when rhetoric of the New World Order was firmly established in legal and political discourse. Nevertheless, the largely positive appraisal of international law’s response to the Iraq - Kuwait conflict has not been mirrored in relation to Yugoslavia. This book evaluates the peace-making efforts of the major institutional actors, whilst focusing specifically on the Badinter Arbitration Commission, an ad hoc EC-created organ required to provide legal advice on the issues surrounding Yugoslavia’s dissolution. Initially composed of constitutional lawyers, aiming to redraft Yugoslavia’s constitution, the Commission soon faced problems of public international law. Its’ jurisprudence challenges international lawyers to reassess their state-centric conceptions of international law in a world where most conflicts, war crimes and human-rights abuses exist within rather than between States. This book is vital reading for anyone interested in international law, international relations, politics and central/eastern European studies.

The Break-up of Yugoslavia and International Law

The Break-up of Yugoslavia and International Law
Author: Peter Radan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2004-01-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134525451

The demise of the former Yugoslavia was brought about by various secessionist movements seeking international recognition of statehood. This book provides a critical analysis from an international law perspective of the break-up of Yugoslavia. Although international recognition was granted to the former Yugoslav republics of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Macedonia, the claims of secessionist movements that sought a revision of existing internal federal borders were rejected. The basis upon which the post-secession international borders were accepted in international law involved novel applications of international law principles of self-determination of peoples and uti possidetis. This book traces the developments of these principles, and the historical development of Yugoslavia's internal borders.

Power Politics and State Formation in the Twentieth Century

Power Politics and State Formation in the Twentieth Century
Author: Bridget Coggins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107047358

From Kurdistan to Somaliland, Xinjiang to South Yemen, all secessionist movements hope to secure newly independent states of their own. Most will not prevail. The existing scholarly wisdom provides one explanation for success, based on authority and control within the nascent states. With the aid of an expansive new dataset and detailed case studies, this book provides an alternative account. It argues that the strongest members of the international community have a decisive influence over whether today's secessionists become countries tomorrow and that, most often, their support is conditioned on parochial political considerations.

The Kosovo Report

The Kosovo Report
Author: Independent International Commission on Kosovo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2000-10-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199243093

The war in Kosovo was a turning point: NATO deployed its armed forces in war for the first time, and placed the controversial doctrine of 'humanitarian intervention' squarely in the world's eye. It was an armed intervention for the purpose of implementing Security Council resolutions-but without Security Council authorization.This report tries to answer a number of burning questions, such as why the international community was unable to act earlier and prevent the escalation of the conflict, as well as focusing on the capacity of the United Nations to act as global peacekeeper.The Commission recommends a new status for Kosovo, 'conditional independence', with the goal of lasting peace and security for Kosovo-and for the Balkan region in general. But many of the conslusions may be beneficially applied to conflicts the world-over.

Ethnicity and International Law

Ethnicity and International Law
Author: Mohammad Shahabuddin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2016-04-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107096790

An historical analysis of how ethnicity shaped international law and why it is relevant to minorities and ethnic conflicts today.

The Border Dispute Between Croatia and Slovenia

The Border Dispute Between Croatia and Slovenia
Author: Thomas Bickl
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030533336

This book re-constructs the evolution of the border conflict between Croatia and Slovenia. The aim is to reveal the processes at work, the historical and contemporary circumstances, and the strategies and motives of the actors involved. The book highlights the roles of the European Union and of judicial third parties in the management of the conflict. Further, it considers the precedent-setting value of the Slovenian-Croatian conflict, the attempts at its resolution, and what they mean for the ongoing and prospective EU enlargement in South East Europe. Internal documents and interviews are at the heart of this process-tracing analysis, which discusses the third-party roles of the European Commission and the EU Council Presidency in 2008/2009 as a mediator-facilitator in the drafting stages of the arbitration agreement, and the judicial work of the arbitration tribunal and the EU Court of Justice. Lastly, the book offers policy recommendations on how to strengthen dispute resolution and solve current bilateral issues in the EU accession process.

A Legal Geography of Yugoslavia's Disintegration

A Legal Geography of Yugoslavia's Disintegration
Author: Ana S. Trbovich
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2008-02-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199715475

A Legal Geography of Yugoslavia's Disintegration explains the violent break-up of the former Yugoslavia in early 1990s in the context of two legal principles- sovereignty and the self-determination of peoples. The author recounts Yugoslavia's history, with a focus on the country's internal, administrative divisions, and aspirations of different ethnic groups in order to effectively explain the genesis of the international community's political decision to recognize the right of secession for the largest administrative units of Yugoslavia. Trobovich, a Serbian author writing from the perspective of a disengaged scholar, tackles her subject matter with clarity and detail and offers an intriguing analysis of Kosovo's future status; international recognition of secession; implications of Yugoslavia's disintegration for other conflicts invoking right to self-determination; and international intervention in ethnic conflicts.

Radovan Karadzic

Radovan Karadzic
Author: Robert J. Donia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2014-09-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1107073359

This book traces Radovan Karadžić's personal transformation from an unremarkable family man to the powerful leader of the Bosnian Serb nationalists. Based on previously unused documents and trial transcripts, this book argues that postcommunist democracy was a primary enabler of mass atrocities because it provided the means to mobilize large numbers of Bosnian Serbs for the campaign to eliminate non-Serbs from conquered land.

Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies

Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies
Author: Charles W. Ingrao
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 1557536171

This collection of essays examines Yugoslavia's dissolution and the subsequent wars.