ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 provides a literature review of the preliminary examinations of admissions to international organizations. It presents a critical summary of two claims in the law of statehood and recognition, known as implicit statehood and collective recognition. These claims are examined in this book in order to show why it is inaccurate or deficient to perceive admissions to international organizations, which delimit their participation to “States,” as forms or actions of creating, confirming, and recognizing a fully-fledged State in international law. In addition, these general discussions are useful and helpful, for they can eliminate a number of preliminary analyses and explorations otherwise necessary in conducting an examination of Palestine’s admissions to international organizations in Chapters 3 and 4. Hence, this book rejects the argument that an admission to an international organization can create a State in the general-law-meaning.
