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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

De Facto Regime

Jochen A Frowein

Content type:
Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

Module:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
March 2013

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2022. All Rights Reserved.date: 12 August 2022

Subject(s):
State practice — Recognition of states — Secession — De facto regime

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 It has been a not infrequent occurrence in international law that for long periods entities have existed, frequently claiming to be States or governments, which controlled more or less clearly defined territories without being recognized—at least by many States—as States or governments (Recognition). Some examples are the Confederation in the American Civil War (1861–65), the national government in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), the German Democratic Republic before 1972, North Vietnam before the reunification of Vietnam, North Korea (Korea), and Taiwan. Other...
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