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From Free Town to Cairo via Kiev: The Unpredictable Road of Democratic Legitimacy in Governmental Recognition

Part of: Recognition of Governments and Customary International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Erika de Wet
Erika de Wet*
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Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria
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Symposium: Recognition of Governments and Customary International Law
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AJIL Unbound , Volume 108 , 2014 , pp. 201 - 207
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