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The first edition of the book came out in 1979, and became a classical monograph.1 As a graduate student at Oxford University in the mid-1990s, this reviewer had the good fortune to find the original version of the book, stacked in the Bodleian Law Library in the St. Cross Building, Oxford, and was somewhat taken aback to find two thick volumes, which obviously outnumbered the published version in terms of word count several times over. Supplication was made by the author to allow his thesis to retain that size when it was submitted for examination for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Oxford. The materials omitted in the 1979 edition of this book have been updated, revised and presented in this magnus opus. 2. The book consists of 17 chapters grouped into four parts. Part I examines the concept of statehood in international...
B. B. Jia (2007) studied this question.