@article{Diallo_2019, title={The Issues of Secession in the Process of the Rise and Fall of States in the Light of International Law}, volume={8}, url={https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ppuam/article/view/21660}, DOI={10.14746/ppuam.2018.8.09}, abstractNote={<p><span style="left: 94.4882px; top: 404.455px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.999141);">The aims of this contribution is to check the validity of the old theory, which goes back </span><span style="left: 94.4882px; top: 427.789px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.933207);">to Jellinek but is still dominant, which states that secession as well as the process of </span><span style="left: 94.4882px; top: 451.122px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00211);">forming a new state, fall under the scope of a “simple fact” and thereby escape through </span><span style="left: 94.4882px; top: 474.455px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.931893);">definition to any law of way. According to this theory, secession is not a question of </span><span style="left: 94.4882px; top: 497.789px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.971085);">“Law” but a question of pure fact, failure or success: if a secessionist movement succeeds </span><span style="left: 94.4882px; top: 521.122px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.9699);">in establishing a new effectiveness, that is to say, puts in place the “Constituent elements” </span><span style="left: 94.4882px; top: 544.455px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.936416);">of a state, a new state is born. It is interesting to observe that with the phenomenon </span><span style="left: 94.4882px; top: 567.789px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02669);">of the rise or the collapse of States, from the global perspective of international order </span><span style="left: 94.4882px; top: 591.122px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01406);">and especially from the point of view of international law, the States concerned are, in </span><span style="left: 94.4882px; top: 614.455px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00821);">practice, not simply left to their fate. On the contrary, the rise or the collapse of a State </span><span style="left: 94.4882px; top: 637.789px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02162);">anywhere in the world is seen as a matter of concern for the international community, </span><span style="left: 94.4882px; top: 661.122px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.971942);">since the international system as a whole is felt to be affected. In such cases, international </span><span style="left: 94.4882px; top: 684.455px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.950716);">reactions have not been manifested primarily through the States as such, either indi</span><span style="left: 668.857px; top: 684.455px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif;">-</span><span style="left: 94.4882px; top: 707.789px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00834);">vidually or together. Basically, these reactions had to cope with the dilemma of choos</span><span style="left: 668.857px; top: 707.789px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif;">-</span><span style="left: 94.4882px; top: 731.122px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.017);">ing between two fundamental principles of legitimacy in international law: on the one </span><span style="left: 94.4882px; top: 754.455px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03736);">hand, the sovereignty and equality of States and, on the other, the right of peoples to </span><span style="left: 94.4882px; top: 777.789px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00497);">self-determination. </span></p>}, journal={Przegląd Prawniczy Uniwersytetu im. Adam Mickiewicza}, author={Diallo, Boubacar Sidi}, year={2019}, month={Dec.} }