Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire
(Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self …

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the use of peace agreements from a legal
perspective. It describes and evaluates the development of contemporary peace processes …

Investigating local responses to EU peacebuilding, this book develops a relational and
spatial concept of agency, helping to understand the processes in which peacebuilding …

In the spring of 1988, the Harvard Human Rights Yearbook (as it was then called) was about
to publish its first volume. I was a second-year law student, and decided to write my third …

The international community has long been criticized for its lack of social legitimacy in
Bosnia-Herzegovina and its creation of a dysfunctional public space in the light of people's …

Examining the state identity formation and international legitimation of de facto states, this
book provides a deeper understanding of the relationship between de facto states, the …

In 2007, the year in which the centenary of the Hague Peace Conference of 1907 was being
commemorated, the treatment of several hundred men by the United States at its base in …

Legitimation of power through institutions is not new in world politics. Yet, the dynamics of
the conferment or withdrawal of legitimacy through the work of international administrations …

This paper examines the impact of Indian intervention on the Madheshi parties' claim to self-
determination in Nepal. In 2007, the Madheshi parties launched mass protests, demanding …

In order to work, international peace-and statebuilding has had to reshape the traditional
notion of state sovereignty and legitimize increasingly interventionist endeavours in terms of …