Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Notes on Contributors v
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Introduction: Contested States in War and Law 1
6. PART I Ambiguous Status and the (Il)legal Use of Force
7. 1 The Ratione Personae Element of the Jus ad Bellum and Taiwan 25
8. 2 The Use of Force Against Taiwan as a Contested State: An Analysis of Legality and Great-Power Politics 42
9. 3 International Law and the Legitimation of State Violence in the Fourth Eelam War (2006–2009) 63
10. 4 Russia-Manufactured ‘Secessions’ in Ukraine: The Attempted Ambiguity of Status, Kosovo, and International Law 83
11. 5 Legitimization of Violence and State Dissolution in Nagorno-Karabakh: A Critical Legal Analysis 105
12. PART II Vulnerability and Agency on the Ground: People and Institutions Navigating War and Law
13. 6 Contested Statehood, Ambiguities and Volatility: The Effects of Lawfare and Warfare in the Western Sahara Conflict 129
14. 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 151
15. 8 Sovereign Experimentation by Separatist Insurgencies: A Performative Perspective 172
16. PART III Contesting and Constructing States at International Courts
17. 9 Contested States Framed by the European Court of Human Rights 195
18. 10 Hide and Seek: Bracketing and Projecting the States of Kosovo and Palestine at International Courts 212
19. PART IV Conclusions
20. 11 Four Normative Positions on the Contestation of Statehood in War and Law 235
21. 12 Speculative Legalities and the Ambiguities of Contested States 249
22. 13 The Melancholy Statehood 258
23. Index 265