This volume contains the first comprehensive study of legal issues arising with regard to the self-declared 'Republic of Somaliland' which, after more than 10 y

This book is a comprehensive study of secession from an international law perspective.

The accountability of armed non-state actors is a neglected field of international law, overtaken by the regimes of state responsibility and individual criminal

This book is concerned with the international regulation of non-state armed groups. Specifically, it examines the possibility of subjecting armed groups to inte

The role and position of non-state actors in international law is the subject of a long-standing and intensive scholarly debate. This book explores the particip