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Originally published by Hersch Lauterpacht in 1947, this book presents a detailed study of recognition in international law, examining its crucial significance in relation to statehood, governments and belligerency. This 2012 paperback re-issue includes a newly commissioned Foreword by James Crawford, Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge.

Originally published in 1958, the achievement of the text is that, rather than attempting to provide a treatise on the organisation of international law, or a systematic digest of decisions made, it finds its basis in an appraisal of the international judicial process as a factor in the development of the law.