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Plavinskyi Vadim Borisovich
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State University of Management
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The article is devoted to the problem of legitimization
of new states that came into be in the post-socialist
period as a result of secession processes. The
relevance of this topic is accounted for by the
intensification of these processes in various parts of
the world and the ensuing quest of the new polities for
independence and recognition. These processes reflect
a historically grounded discrepancy between the need
of the people in the new states for self-identification
and the desire to keep their territorial integrity intact.
This is aggravated by the fact that political and legal
settlement of the problem of international recognition
of the new polities has so far not been achieved. This
leads to various conflicts, misunderstanding and the
policy of double standards. The key idea consists in
the following: a fully valid legitimacy of power in the
“de facto”, or “contested” states cannot be achieved
through the internal recognition of power alone,
without the external constituent – the international
recognition of the new polity. The article also focuses
on the interpretation of various names attributed to
such polities, especially those that sprang up on the
post-soviet territories. A special attention is devoted to
highly contested conceptual and legal approaches to
the problem, subject for discussions in the politicolegal
sphere