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Article: The dissolution of Yugoslavia and the fate of its financial obligations.
- Article from:
- Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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INTRODUCTION
The law of state succession is one of the most complicated issues in public international law. (1) Although it has been dealt with since the beginning of human interest in the field of relations among different political entities, (2) scholars, economists and politicians have seldom reached an agreement on what the real legal rules are on how to treat this phenomenon. This note will analyze the case of the succession of Yugoslavia and some of the problems raised by the disintegration of that country into separate republics, paying special regards to the fate of its financial obligations.
In order to address these concerns, the First Section ...