Book contents
- Boundaries and Secession in Africa and International Law
- Boundaries and Secession in Africa and International Law
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Book part
- Cases
- UN and OAU/AU Resolutions
- Glossary
- Additional material
- Introduction
- Part I The African territorial regime
- 1 The Frontier Dispute case and applying uti possidetis to Africa
- 2 The rule of intangibility of inherited frontiers
- 3 The conventional obligation to respect the territorial status quo
- 4 The customary rule of respecting the territorial status quo
- 5 The changes made in international law by African custom
- Part II Towards an exception to the African rule against secession
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - The rule of intangibility of inherited frontiers
from Part I - The African territorial regime
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2015
- Boundaries and Secession in Africa and International Law
- Boundaries and Secession in Africa and International Law
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Book part
- Cases
- UN and OAU/AU Resolutions
- Glossary
- Additional material
- Introduction
- Part I The African territorial regime
- 1 The Frontier Dispute case and applying uti possidetis to Africa
- 2 The rule of intangibility of inherited frontiers
- 3 The conventional obligation to respect the territorial status quo
- 4 The customary rule of respecting the territorial status quo
- 5 The changes made in international law by African custom
- Part II Towards an exception to the African rule against secession
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Boundaries and Secession in Africa and International LawChallenging <I>Uti Possidetis</I>, pp. 47 - 74Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015