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List of Acronyms
AKP Justice and Development Party (Turkey)
AR Autonomous Republic
ASSR Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
BTC Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline
CENTO The Central Treaty Organisation
CFE Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
CIS Commonwealth of Independent States
CoE Council of Europe
CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union
CSCE Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
CST Collective Security Treaty
DRG Democratic Republic of Georgia
EAPC Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
EC European Communities
ECHR European Court of Human Rights
EU European Union
FLN National Liberation Front of Algeria
FRG Federal Republic of Germany
GA General Assembly
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GDR German Democratic Republic
GPRA Provisional Government of Algerian Republic
GSSR Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
GU(U)AM Georgia, Ukraine, (Uzbekistan), Azerbaijan, Moldova
ICJ International Court of Justice
IIFFMCG The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia
JCC Joint Control Commission
KGB Committee of State Security of the Soviet Union
KLA Kosovo Liberation Army
MAP Membership Action Plan
MFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs
NATO Northern Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NKR Nagorno Karabakh Republic
OAU Organisation for African Unity
OSCE Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
PACE Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
PD Prisoner’s Dilemma
PISG Provisional Institution of Self-Government in Kosovo
PPP Pakistan People’s Party
PRC People’s Republic of China
RF Russian Federation
RSFSR Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic
RSK Republic of Srpska Krajina
SC Supreme Council
SEATO South East Asian Treaty Organisation
SFRY Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
SSR Soviet Socialist Republic
TMR Transnistrian Moldovan Republic
TRNC Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
UK United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
UN United Nations
UNFICYP UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
UNMIK United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
UNOMIG United Nations Observer Mission to Georgia
UNSC United Nations Security Council
UNSG United Nations Secretary-General
UNSIMIC United Nations Settlement Implementation Mission in Cyprus
UNTAET United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor
USA United States of America
USD United States Dollar
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
WW World War
Contents
2. Self-Determination, Secession and Recognition in International Law
2.1. Introduction
2.2. The Principle of Self-Determination in International Law
2.2.1. Sources of International Law
2.2.3. Self-determination in International Law
2.2.5. Historical Title vs. Self-Determination
2.3. Secession in International Law
2.3.1. What is Secession?
2.3.2. Secession in International Law
2.3.4. Secession in Violation of International Law
2.4. Recognition in International Law
2.4.1. What is Recognition?
2.4.2. Evolution of Recognition