Contested States in War and Law
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Contested States in War and Law

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Contested States in War and Law

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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

The precarious status of contested states both reflects and begets conflict. From Taiwan to Western Sahara and from Nagorno-Karabakh to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, contested states call into question the standard categories of international law that divide inside and outside, state and non-state, war and rebellion. They inevitably fall in-between them, while alternatively disputing and negotiating their applicability.

Bringing together perspectives from a range of disciplines, the book focuses on some of the most entrenched conflicts around the world. It reveals how different actors, including de facto governments, parent and patron states, local populations, and international courts, navigate the grey zone as they redraw, or work around, the fault lines of war and law.

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Yes, you can access Contested States in War and Law by Janis Grzybowski,Giulia Prelz Oltramonti,Agatha Verdebout in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Courts. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Notes on Contributors
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction: Contested States in War and Law
  8. Part I Ambiguous Status and the (Il)legal Use of Force
  9. 1 The Ratione Personae Element of the Jus ad Bellum and Taiwan
  10. 2 The Use of Force Against Taiwan as a Contested State: An Analysis of Legality and Great-Power Politics
  11. 3 International Law and the Legitimation of State Violence in the Fourth Eelam War (2006–2009)
  12. 4 Russia-Manufactured ‘Secessions’ in Ukraine: The Attempted Ambiguity of Status, Kosovo, and International Law
  13. 5 Legitimization of Violence and State Dissolution in Nagorno-Karabakh: A Critical Legal Analysis
  14. Part II Vulnerability and Agency on the Ground: People and Institutions Navigating War and Law
  15. 6 Contested Statehood, Ambiguities and Volatility: The Effects of Lawfare and Warfare in the Western Sahara Conflict
  16. 7 Hardening Ceasefire Lines in Protracted Secessionist Conflicts: From the Negotiating Table and International Law to Realities on the Ground in the Case of the Abkhaz–Georgian War
  17. 8 Sovereign Experimentation by Separatist Insurgencies: A Performative Perspective
  18. Part III Contesting and Constructing States at International Courts
  19. 9 Contested States Framed by the European Court of Human Rights
  20. 10 Hide and Seek: Bracketing and Projecting the States of Kosovo and Palestine at International Courts
  21. Part IV Conclusions
  22. 11 Four Normative Positions on the Contestation of Statehood in War and Law
  23. 12 Speculative Legalities and the Ambiguities of Contested States
  24. 13 The Melancholy Statehood
  25. Index