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States, Secessionists and De Facto Control after Separatist Wars Strategies for Controlling Territories and Populations after Conflict
By Nicholas Barker
Copyright 2025
222 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book investigates how states and secessionists seek to resolve questions of de facto control in the aftermath of secessionist wars.
This work presents a study of the termination and aftermath of separatist wars, using two in-depth case studies – the Georgia-Abkhazia conflict (1994-2006) and the Serbia-Kosovo conflict (1999-2008) – to develop an empirically grounded theoretical framework to... Read more
1. Controlling Territory and Populations after Separatist Wars 2. Theoretical Framework 3. Introduction to the Case Studies 4. Georgia and Abkhazia 5. Serbia and Kosovo 6. Discussion of the Theory-Building Cases and Post-2008 Developments 7. Shadow Cases and the Russia--Ukraine War 8. Conclusions: Theory Development, Further Research, and Policy Relevance
Biography
Nicholas Barker is a teaching fellow at the University of Birmingham and has a DPhil in International Relations from Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
