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States, Secessionists and De Facto Control after Separatist Wars: Strategies for Controlling Territories and Populations after Conflict

States, Secessionists and De Facto Control after Separatist Wars: Strategies for Controlling Territories and Populations after Conflict

Barker, Nicholas

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Statehood

Eastern European HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1032529962
ISBN13: 9781032529967
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 5 2025
Pages: 214
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 explain state and secessionist strategies for controlling territory and populations in post-war environments. It draws on fieldwork and archival research carried out in Georgia, Abkhazia, Serbia, Kosovo, and the UN archives and presents further evidence to develop and extend the framework using 'shadow cases' of the separatist wars in the Caucasus and the Balkans. By focusing on actors' objectives and their strategies for controlling territory and populations within the constraints and opportunities of a post-war context, this study helps explain what states and secessionists do and why in the critical period after a war ends and helps inform understanding of the formation and trajectories of post-war orders. This study has relevance for international policymakers, with reflections on how the theoretical framework may facilitate conflict analysis and inform policy responses towards protracted armed conflict.

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