Title to Territory in Europe in the Context of the Russian-Ukrainian Armed Conflict: Methods, Illegal Claims and Legal Assessments

Kononenko Valerii (), Tarakhonych Tetiana (), Tymchenko Liliana () and Parkhomenko Nataliia ()

European Studies - The Review of European Law, Economics and Politics, 2023, vol. 10, issue 1, 133-156

Abstract: Illegal decisions and actions do not give rise to legal consequences. An annexed territory cannot receive the status of a part of an aggressor state. The question of a territorial dispute does not arise in this case. It is correct to talk about a unilateral unreasonable claim. Territory, as an integral part of the concept of state, as a criterion of statehood, has acquired special significance in the modern conditions. It is not only a natural resource (land, water, subsoil) and a space for the placement of technologies and hazardous waste. It may be considered as a line of protection. States may lay claim to one or another part of the territory of a neighboring state. The methods of territorial acquisitions of the past do not comply with the norms of modern international law.

Keywords: title to territory; territorial integrity; continuity of states; state-hood; annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation; International Court of Justice on territorial disputes; methods of territorial acquisition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.2478/eustu-2023-0006

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