The precarious and circumstancial legal status of the state as the foremost subject of the international normative order
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https://doi.org/10.17808/des.56.940Keywords:
international law, state, sovereigntyAbstract
The State is a cardinal and structural element of international law. The international normative order derives, fundamentally, from inter-state dynamics. At the same time, international law carries the pretension of defining its legal status. There are countless criticisms and divergences, however, when concrete efforts are directed toward determining parameters for the characterization of the State status and what are the objective legal ramifications of that condition. The analysis of the theme under the prism of International Law - through vague (and often conflicting) theoretical propositions; the superficial manifestations of jurisprudence; the scarcity and ineffectiveness of normative instruments; and the contingent political constructions - corroborates the argument that statehood still appears as a general legal status whose determination is less technical-legal than circumstantial.References
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