Beschreibung:
Do commercial obligations survive state succession? This book aims to answer this via careful analyses of efforts by the United Nations to codify the law of state succession, as well as of state successions involving East Timor, Hong Kong, Macau, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union.
Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; PART I - A NEW APPROACH; Chapter 1: Conceptualizing the Law of Succession; Chapter 2: Key Concepts; PART II - THE MODERN LAW AND POLICY; Chapter 3: The Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of Treaties of 1978; Chapter 4: The Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of State Property, Archives and Debts of 1983; PART III - CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE; Chapter 5: East Timor; Chapter 6: Hong Kong and Macau; Chapter 7: Czechoslovakia; Chapter 8: Yugoslavia PART VI - POLICY REVIEW; Chapter 10: Appraisal; Appendix A: Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of Treaties of 1978; Appendix B: Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of State Property, Archives and Debts of 1983; Table of Authorities, Index;