books.google.com - Although most international lawyers assumed that the distribution of the land surface of the earth between States was more or less final after the end of decolonization, recent practice has disproved this assumption. Eritrea separated from Ethiopia and new States were created out of the former Soviet...http://books.google.com/books/about/Statehood_and_the_Law_of_Self_determinat.html?id=L7UOyPGYBkwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareStatehood and the Law of Self-determination