Contested States in War and Law

Janis Grzybowski is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Catholic University of Lille, and currently Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. 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).

• Introduction: Contested States in War and Law - Janis Grzybowski, Giulia Prelz-Oltramonti & Agatha VerdeboutPart 1: Ambiguous Status and the (Il)legal Use of Force 1.The Ratione Personae Element of the Jus ad Bellum and Taiwan - Christian Henderson2.The Use of Force against Taiwan as a Contested State: An Analysis of Legality and Great-Power Politics - Ming-chin Monique Chu3.International Law and the Legitimation of State Violence in the Fourth Eelam War (2006-2009) - Megan Price4.Russia-Manufactured ‘Secessions’ in Ukraine: The Attempted Ambiguity of Status, Kosovo and International Law - Júlia Miklasová5.Legitimization of Violence and State Dissolution in Nagorno-Karabakh: A Critical Legal Analysis - Sheila PaylanPart 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 Fernández-Molina7.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 Gaëlle Le Pavic8.Sovereign Experimentation by Separatist Insurgencies: A Performative Perspective - Bart KlemPart 3: Contesting and Constructing States at International Courts9.Contested States Framed by the European Court of Human Rights - Anne Lagerwall10. Hide and Seek: Bracketing and Projecting the States of Kosovo and Palestine at International Courts - Janis GrzybowskiPart 4: Conclusions11.Four Normative Positions on the Contestation of Statehood in War and Law - Bruno Coppieters12.Speculative Legalities and the Ambiguities of Contested States - Rebecca Bryant13.The Melancholy Statehood - Martti Koskenniemi

‘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