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Whither Democratic Legitimism?: Contextualizing Recent Developments in the Recognition and Non-recognition of Governments

Part of: Recognition of Governments and Customary International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Brad R. Roth
Brad R. Roth*
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Wayne State University
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Erika de Wet has provided a useful and balanced assessment of the current state of the international law of governmental illegitimacy. Her account quite rightly concludes that “democratic legitimacy is not yet a requirement for the recognition of a de jure government under customary international law.” What follows below seeks to expand on her observations in two ways: by developing somewhat further the doctrinal linkages to which she alludes; and by explaining the failure of a consistently legitimist state practice to materialize, in light of the dynamics of the legal order within which the question of governmental illegitimacy is embedded.

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Symposium: Recognition of Governments and Customary International Law
Information
AJIL Unbound , Volume 108 , 2014 , pp. 213 - 218
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

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