Recognition in International Law

Part I. Recognition of States:

1. Introductory;

2. The legal nature of recognition and the practice of states;

3. The legal duty of recognition and the conditions of statehood;

4. The declaratory and constitutive views of recognition;

5. The declaratory and constitutive views of recognition (continued);

6. The procedure of recognition;

Appendix to chapters 1-6;

Part II. Recognition of Governments:

7. International law and revolutionary changes of governments;

8. The tests of recognition of governments;

9. The principle of effectiveness and the consent of the governed;

10. The legal effects of non-recognition of governments;

11. The legal nature of recognition and the duty of recognition;

Part III. Recognition of Belligerency and of Insurgency:

12. The principles of recognition of belligerency;

13. The right of the insurgents and of the lawful government to recognition of belligerency;

Appendix to chapters 12 and 13;

14. Recognition of belligerency and the principles of international law;

15. Problems of recognition of belligerency;

Appendix to chapters 14 and 15;

16. Recognition of insurgency;

17. Recognition of insurgents as a government;

18. Insurgency and piracy;

Appendix to chapter 18;

Part IV. Problems of Recognition:

19. De facto recognition, withdrawal of recognition and conditional recognition;

Appendix to chapter 19;

20. Implied recognition;

21. The principle of non recognition; Index.