{"product_id":"democratic-statehood-in-international-law","title":"Democratic Statehood in International Law","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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833557790925,"sku":"9781849464697","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_bfe773de-3540-4e30-aa56-28bd568c5b28.jpg?v=1790888571","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/democratic-statehood-in-international-law","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}