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Recognition of Governments: Legal Doctrine and State Practice, 1815-1995. By M. J. Peterson. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 279. Index. $65.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1998

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References

1 Sec Colin, Warbrick, Recognition of States: Recent European Practice , in Aspects of Statehood and Institutionalism in Contemporary Europe 9, 9 (Malcolm, D. Evans ed., 1997)Google Scholar. Warbrick cites Peterson’s own article as an instance of this: Peterson, M.J., Recognition of Governments Should Not Be Abolished , 77 AJIL 31 (1983)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 1993 Q.B. 54. In the absence of an act of recognition by the UK Government, the High Court had to interpret executive comments on the extent of its dealings with any regime in Somalia after the fall of Siad Barre.

3 Ian, Brownlie, Recognition in Theory and Practice , 1982 Brit. Y.B. Int’l L. 197, 198 Google Scholar.