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Contested States in War and Law [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 288 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, Not illustrated
  • Išleidimo metai: 18-Sep-2025
  • Leidėjas: Bristol University Press
  • ISBN-10: 152924689X
  • ISBN-13: 9781529246896
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 288 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, Not illustrated
  • Išleidimo metai: 18-Sep-2025
  • Leidėjas: Bristol University Press
  • ISBN-10: 152924689X
  • ISBN-13: 9781529246896
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
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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.

Recenzijos

State sovereignty and the violence wrought in its name are justified and resisted, defined and unsettled in legal terms as these terrific chapters illuminate with careful case studies and a clarifying theoretical insight. David Kennedy, Harvard University Centred on legal aspects, cross-regional and interdisciplinary - a great addition to the literature. Magdalena Dembiska, Université de Montréal

Introduction: Contested States in War and Law - Janis Grzybowski, Giulia
Prelz-Oltramonti & Agatha Verdebout


Part 1: Ambiguous Status and the (Il)legal Use of Force


1. The Ratione Personae Element of the Jus ad Bellum and Taiwan - Christian
Henderson


2. The Use of Force against Taiwan as a Contested State: An Analysis of
Legality and Great-Power Politics - Ming-chin Monique Chu


3. International Law and the Legitimation of State Violence in the Fourth
Eelam War (2006-2009) - Megan Price


4. Russia-Manufactured Secessions in Ukraine: The Attempted Ambiguity of
Status, Kosovo and International Law - Jślia Miklasovį


5. Legitimization of Violence and State Dissolution in Nagorno-Karabakh: A
Critical Legal Analysis - Sheila Paylan


Part 2: Vulnerability and Agency on the Ground: People and Institutions
Navigating War and Law


6. Contested Statehood, Ambiguities and Volatility: The Effects of Lawfare
and Warfare in the Western Sahara Conflict - Irene Fernįndez-Molina


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 - Giulia Prelz Oltramonti and Gaėlle Le
Pavic


8. Sovereign Experimentation by Separatist Insurgencies: A Performative
Perspective - Bart Klem


Part 3: Contesting and Constructing States at International Courts


9. Contested States Framed by the European Court of Human Rights - Anne
Lagerwall


10. Hide and Seek: Bracketing and Projecting the States of Kosovo and
Palestine at International Courts - Janis Grzybowski


Conclusions


11. Four Normative Positions on the Contestation of Statehood in War and Law
- Bruno Coppieters


12. Speculative Legalities and the Ambiguities of Contested States - Rebecca
Bryant


13. The Melancholy Statehood - Martti Koskenniemi
Janis Grzybowski is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Catholic University of Lille and 2025-26 Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI).









Giulia Prelz Oltramonti is Research Fellow at the Centre for Security and Defence Studies (CSDS) at the Royal Higher Institute for Defence and member of the Recherche et études en politique internationale (REPI) at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).









Agatha Verdebout is a senior researcher at the Research and Information on Peace and Security Group (GRIP) and an associate member of the Center for International Law (CDI) at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).