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L'évolution du statut international de l'Allemagne depuis 1945

This 732 page book required the investment of considerable time and effort, certainly more than needed for two very good substantial journal articles. The following topics were investigated and analysed in depth in the context of post-war Germany: the law of occupation; the sovereignty of a State; the continuity and identity of the State; the right to recognition and the right to external self-determination. There is no comparable work in the literature in any language. The 7 years spent focussed primarily on the book limited my ability to produce other outputs, in particular, long, scholarly articles for peer reviewed journals.

The book first argues that the German State survived its occupation from 1945 to 1949 and analyses the occupation regime very precisely. The book then outlines the increasing autonomy of the two German Republics established in 1949 on the territory of the German State as well as the status of Berlin. The book also analyses the particular relationships between the two German Republics and the continuing German State. The author finally studies the reunification of Germany and demonstrates that the Federal Republic of Germany has been recognised in international law as being identical to the German State.