State Recognition: Admission (Im)Possible

Leiden Journal of International Law

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 785-795

  Buyse, Antoine ^a   Lawson, Rick ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

admission to international organizations; Bosnia and Herzegovina; constitutive theory; Council of Europe; state recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009576639     PISSN: 09221565     EISSN: 14789698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S092215650700444X     Document Type: Article

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6. To be found in 31 ILM 1486 (1992).
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