Part I: Statehood Chapter 1 The concepts of 'subject of law' and 'personality' in international law Chapter 2 the state as an international legal person Chapter 3 the traditional criteria for statehood and the concept of effectiveness Chapter 4 the obligation of non-recognition and additional criteria for statehood based on legality Part II: self-determination Chapter 5 The emergence and development of the principle of self-determination: from the American and French Revolutions to the era of decolonization Chapter 6 The Post-Colonial Era: internal and external self-determination Chapter 7 secession Part III: statehood and self-determination Chapter 8 the formation of states and the operation of the law of self-determination.