ABSTRACT
The Libyan interest, which utilized Chad's weaknesses, upset the balance, of power in trans-Saharan Africa, more and more African states were drawn into the conflict. When Front de Liberation Nationale du Tchad experienced further divisions and the state witnessed its political fracturing, concerned states and international organizations combined to sustain Chad's juridical statehood and attempted to provide the framework for rebuilding empirical viability. Three conditions to Chad's survival can be distinguished. First, Chad has been sustained politically and financially from the outset. Second, from the time Chad proclaimed itself independent, it has relied on external military assistance to maintain order throughout the territory. Finally, an extremely important condition accounting for why Chad has survived is the collaborative moral-legal norm governing the international states-system. State sovereignty and territorial integrity are two terms frequently used in support of weak states experiencing either internal difficulties or external threat.
