Non-recognition of states as a specific sanction of public international law
Non-recognition of states as a specific sanction of public international law

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses two of the most controversial institutions of public international law: the recognition / non-recognition of states and the sanction in public international law, arguing why the non-recognition of states represents one of the specific sanctions of the public international law. The purpose of this article is to bring a novelty value to the current stage of research, by analysing a specific sanction of public international law: the non-recognition of the states created by disregarding international rules, especially the jus cogens ones. Therefore, the research hypothesis of this article is as follows: the non-recognition of states represents a specific legal sanction of public international law which intervenes as a results of the violation of some jus cogens rules in the process of creating the new state that wants its recognition.

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