International Law and the Rise of Nations

Foreword by Inis L. Claude Jr. Introduction. Thomas M. Franck: Clan and Superclan: Loyalty, Identity and Community in Law and Practice. I. The Rise of Nations. Michael Ross Fowler and Julie Marie Bunck: The Nation Neglected: The Organization of International Life in the Classical State Sovereignty Period; J. Samuel Barkin and Bruce Cronin: The State and the Nation: Changing Norms and the Rules of Sovereignty in International Relations; Robert J. Beck: Britain and the 1933 Refugee Convention: National or State Sovereignty? Nathaniel Berman: The International Law of Nationalism: Group Identity and Legal History. II. The International Legal Challenges Posed by the Rise of Nations. Oscar Schachter: The Decline of the Nation-State and its Implications for International Law; Benedict Kingsburry: Claims by Non-State Groups in International Law; Maivan Clech Lam: Making Room for Peoples at the United Nations: Thoughts Provoked by Indigenous Claims to Self-Determination; Lea Brilmayer: Groups, Histories, and International Law. III. International Legal Responses to the Rise of Nations. Hurst Hannum: Rethinking Self-Determination; Steven R. Ratner: Drawing a Better Line: Uti Possidetis and the Borders of New States; Thomas Ambrosio: Irredentism: Self-Determination and Interstate War; Eric Kolodner: Population Transfer: The Effects of Settler Infusion Policies on a Host Population's Right to Self-Determination. Conclusion. Thomas Ambrosio: The Accommodation of Nations in Interstate Law