"Detailing the requirements for the creation of new states under contemporary international law, this book combines both the theory and practice of statehood to guide policy makers, practicing lawyers, legal scholars, political scientists, philosophers, and sociologists through this complex process"--

Alex Green is a Senior Lecturer at the University of York. His publications have appeared in periodicals such as the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Australian Year Book of International Law, Transnational Legal Theory, and the European Human Rights Law Review. His research has been funded by the Modern Law Review Covid-19 Response Fellowship and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council.

Introduction: reconstructing the law of state creation; Part I. Political Community: 1. Political ethics and community membership; 2. Political action and valuable institutions; 3. The antecedents of statehood; 4. Five procedural principles; Part II. Stability, Legitimacy, and Democracy: 5. The stability thesis; 6. The legitimacy thesis; 7. Democratic legitimacy; Conclusion: The nature and resilience of statehood.