Threats to Territorial Integrity

Anselm Francis

Chapter 11 in Peace, Development and Security in the Caribbean, 1990, pp 224-240 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As a result of the decolonisation process which engulfed the Third World in the 1960s, today there are very few remaining colonies in the Caribbean area. There is no doubt that this is a healthy development, but a nagging question still remains. By virtue of their small size, precarious economic condition and negligible military capability, can it reasonably be said that international law in its present state of development provides sufficient guarantee for the territorial integrity and political independence of ministates? The very term ‘ministate’ is alien to international law; the 1933 Montevideo Convention On Rights And Duties of States,’ which is commonly accepted as reflecting the requirements of statehood at customary international law, stipulates in Article 1:

Keywords: Small State; Drug Trafficking; Drug Trafficker; United Nations Convention; Territorial Integrity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10244-0_11

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