Part III The Creation of States in International Organizations, Ch.12 International Dispositive Powers

Prince Bismarck observes that the question is whether or not the powers are agreed to recognize the independence of Roumania … Europe alone has the power to sanction independence. She has then to ask herself under what conditions she will adopt that important decision.1 From time to time it happens that a group of great Powers, or a large number of States both great and small, assume a power to create by a multilateral treaty some new international regime or status, which soon acquires a degree of acceptance and durability extending beyond the limits of the actual...