Introduction: unrecognized states in the international system&NINA CASPERSEN AND GARETH STANSFIELD 1
PART I Conceptualizing unrecognized states 9
1 Theorizing unrecognized states: sovereignty, secessionism,and political economy&JAMES HARVEY AND GARETH STANSFIELD 11
2 Complex terrains: unrecognized states and globalization&MATANCHOREV 27
3 International actions and the making and unmaking of unrecognized states&KLEJDA MULAJ 41
4 What do unrecognized states tell us about sovereignty?&STACY CLOSSON 58
PART Ⅱ The interactions of the recognized and the unrecognized state 71
5 States without sovereignty: imitating democratic statehood&NINA CASPERSEN 73
6 After the war ends: violence and viability of post-Soviet unrecognized states&KRISTIN M. BAKKE 90
7 ‘Separatism is the mother of terrorism': internationalizing the security discourse on unrecognized states&PAL KOLSTO AND HELGE BLAKKISRUD 110
8 The foreign policies of unrecognized states&FRANCIS OWTRAM 128
PART Ⅲ Conflict management and unrecognized states 145
9 The limits of international conflict management in the case of Abkhazia and South Ossetia&STEFAN WOLFF 147
10 The politics of unrecognized states and the business of international peace mediation: enablers or hindrance for conflict resolution?&ANTJE HERRBERG 165
11 Reintegrating unrecognized states: internationalizing frozen conflicts&LIAM ANDERSON 183
Appendix: maps of unrecognized states 207
Bibliography 227
Index 246