Summary

L. Mälksoo. Illegal Annexation and State Continuity: The Case of the Incorporation of the Baltic States by the USSR. Study of the Tension between Normativity and Power in International Law. London, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2003, XXXIV, 373 p.

The article provides an overview of the book by Lauri Mälksoo, lecturer in international law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Tartu, on the state continuity of the Baltic countries during the occupation. This study provided the doctoral thesis for L. Mälksoo’s /i>doctor juris degree at the Humboldt University in Berlin.