Inherited Borders from Colonization and International Law: Navigating the Evolution of Uti Possidetis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article aims to highlight the evolution of the principle of uti possidetis over time and its relationship to self-determination and secession. It is considered to be a general principle of international law that is closely related to the principle of the intangibility of inherited frontiers, and it is destined to address boundary struggles over independence. Uti possidetis is a principle of South American origin, but, enshrined by the Organization of African Unity (African Union) in its Constitutive Charter, consisting of a commitment by African states never to question colonial borders. The study shed the light on the application of uti possidetis beyond decolonization to newly independent states, which were created upon the collapse of some states or through the separation from existing ones, and explained the principle constituted a ground for the creation of a new norm of customary international law. However, the principle has been challenged by current justifications for secession in Africa which undermined its credibility. Finally, this article concludes that the application of the uti possidetis is not always and in all circumstances able to solve all the problems of territorial delimitation between new States.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.061 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".