State Creation and the International Recognition of New States. The Examples of Palestine, Kosovo and Timor-Leste

Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - Topic: International relations, grade: 1,3, University of Siegen, language: English, abstract: This research aims to find out the reasons why Palestine and Kosovo could not get general international recognition and become members of the UN and also to assess the plausibility of two theories regarding their explanations for states' decisi...