Introduction: unrecognized states in the international system&NINA CASPERSEN AND GARETH STANSFIELD

PART I Conceptualizing unrecognized states

1 Theorizing unrecognized states: sovereignty, secessionism,and political economy&JAMES HARVEY AND GARETH STANSFIELD

2 Complex terrains: unrecognized states and globalization&MATANCHOREV

3 International actions and the making and unmaking of unrecognized states&KLEJDA MULAJ

4 What do unrecognized states tell us about sovereignty?&STACY CLOSSON

PART Ⅱ The interactions of the recognized and the unrecognized state

5 States without sovereignty: imitating democratic statehood&NINA CASPERSEN

6 After the war ends: violence and viability of post-Soviet unrecognized states&KRISTIN M. BAKKE

7 ‘Separatism is the mother of terrorism': internationalizing the security discourse on unrecognized states&PAL KOLSTO AND HELGE BLAKKISRUD

8 The foreign policies of unrecognized states&FRANCIS OWTRAM

PART Ⅲ Conflict management and unrecognized states

9 The limits of international conflict management in the case of Abkhazia and South Ossetia&STEFAN WOLFF

10 The politics of unrecognized states and the business of international peace mediation: enablers or hindrance for conflict resolution?&ANTJE HERRBERG

11 Reintegrating unrecognized states: internationalizing frozen conflicts&LIAM ANDERSON

Appendix: maps of unrecognized states

Bibliography

Index