Self-Determination during the Cold War: UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (1960), the Prohibition of Partition, and the Establishment of the British Indian Ocean Territory (1965)

Kattan, Victor

Abstract

This article uses the history of partition to assess when self-determination became a rule of customary international law prohibiting partition as a method of decolonization. In so doing it revisits the partitions of Indochina, Korea, India, Palestine, Cyprus, South Africa, and South West Africa, and explains that UN practice underwent a transformation when the UN General Assembly opposed the United Kingdom’s partition proposals for Cyprus in 1958. Two years later, the UN General Assembly condemned any attempt aimed at the partial or total disruption of the national unity and the territorial integrity of a country in Resolution 1514 (1960).

Citation

Kattan, V. (2016). Self-Determination during the Cold War: UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (1960), the Prohibition of Partition, and the Establishment of the British Indian Ocean Territory (1965). Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online, 19(1), 419-468. https://doi.org/10.1163/18757413-00190015

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 1, 2016
• Online Publication Date: May 30, 2016
• Publication Date: May 30, 2016
• Deposit Date: Aug 10, 2020
• Journal: Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online
• Print ISSN: 1389-4633
• Electronic ISSN: 1875-7413
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 419-468
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18757413-00190015
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4824595
• Publisher URL: https://brill.com/view/journals/mpyo/19/1/mpyo.19.issue-1.xml