Soumyadip Chakraborty, OP Jindal Global Law School
ABSTRACT
The idea of statehood is regulated by the ambiguity of international law norms, hence the international context of statehood with respect to a community may be disputed and inconsistent. This essay addresses the issue of statehood and, more particularly, Art. 1 of the Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, which outlines the requirements for statehood. This essay tries to evaluate how poorly the Montevideo requirements for achieving sovereignty under international law have been applied mainly to the statehood of the new country Kailasa.
