title: Modelling Democratic Secession in International Law
abstract: 3 New States have emerged in a number of waves, notably at the time of the United Nations decolonization movement in the 1960s, during which decade 42 States were admitted to UN membership; and the partial collapse of the Soviet Empire and dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, when 32 new members were admitted.Since the turn of the twenty-first century, only 5 new States have been admitted to the United Nations (a significant decrease on the average).paradoxical as many would claim that it was