State failure, sovereignty and effectiveness : legal lessons from the decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa

Foreword by Sir Robert Jennings, 1 Introduction, 2 On the State and State Failure, 1. Introduction, 2. The State in International law, 3. The Sociological and the Normative Conception of the State, 4. State Failure, 3 African Independence and the Transformation of Sovereignty, 1. Introduction, 2. Positive and Negative Sovereignty, 3. The Decline of Colonialism and the Expansion of International Society 4. The New Game of Negative Sovereignty, 5. Juridical Statehood outside the Colonial Context: Why Africa is not ‘Just Different’, 6. Final Observations, 4 The Abandonment of Effectiveness, 1. Introduction, 2. The Swing of the Pendulum, 3. Dissolving the Unity between Reality and Ideas, 4. Effectiveness and the Unity between Reality and Ideas, 5. Statehood, State Failure, and the Abandonment of Effectiveness, 5 Some Illustrations of the Consequences of Inherent Weakness, 1. Introduction 2. How Weak States Fail, 3. The Evasion of the Normative Character of International Law, 4. Some Additional Observations, 6 A Little Order, 1. Introduction, 2. Restoring the Unity between Reality and Ideas, 3. Reviving the UN Trusteeship System for Failed States, 4. Withdrawal of Recognition, 5. Self-Determination: The Final Hurdle, 7 Conclusions, 1. The Decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa, 2. Recognition, 3. Sovereignty, 4. Effectiveness, 5. State Failure, 6. The General Perspective: Why Hobbes was Right, Index.