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Soviet Conception of Sovereignty and International Law

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This author does not believe, as a rule, in the adequacy of such designation of theoretical conceptions of international law as for instance: Italian, or French, or German, etc. Unless a theory is proclaimed to be a national theory of a country, or all the writers in a country are of one and the same opinion in a field, it seems inadequate, from the scholarly point of view, to tie up a theory with the name of a particular nation. It is inadequate because such a terminology tends to cover with one name various and often divergent concepts and beliefs.

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Korowicz, M.S. (1959). Soviet Conception of Sovereignty and International Law. In: Introduction to International Law. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9226-2_5

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