TY - BOOK ID - 6759190 TI - Illegal annexation and state continuity PY - 2003 VL - 5 SN - 9041121773 9004478477 1423721675 9781423721673 PB - Leiden Boston M. Nijhoff Publishers DB - UniCat KW - Annexation (International law). KW - Dismemberment of nations. KW - Dismemberment of nations KW - Annexation (International law) KW - Baltic States KW - International status KW - History KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Sovereignty KW - Partition, Territorial KW - State succession KW - Cession of territory KW - Acquisition of territory KW - International law KW - Territory, National KW - Baltic Republics KW - Baltics (States) KW - Autonomy and independence movements. KW - International status. KW - National independence movements KW - Secession movements KW - Social movements KW - Decolonization KW - Nationalism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6759190 AB - The depth and intensity of the transformation in Eastern and Central Europe in the 1980's and 1990's took most diplomats and political commentators by surprise. Needless to say, European politics now looks completely different from how it did during the stale years of the Cold War. This volume is an in-depth analysis of one aspect of the transformation - namely the Baltic States' struggle to regain the statehood they had lost in the Soviet occupation in June 1940. It analyses the claim of illegality of the Soviet occupation, arguments about possible prescription, the legal consequences of illegality as well as the restoration of the statehood of the three Baltic States after 1990. The relevant facts are clearly described and the application of the legal rules is skillfully based on arguments from precedent and legal principle. The author also discusses the question of the significance of (pure) legal status, detached from the enjoyment of rights and obligations which that status entails in law. ER -