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The breakup of India and Palestine: The causes and legacies of partition (2023)
Book
Kattan, V., & Ranjan, A. (Eds.). (2023). The breakup of India and Palestine: The causes and legacies of partition. Manchester University Press

This book is the first study of political and legal thinking about the partitions of India and Palestine in 1947. The chapters in the volume, authored by leading scholars of partition, draw attention to the pathways of peoples, geographic spaces, col... Read More about The breakup of India and Palestine: The causes and legacies of partition.

Making Endless War: The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law (2023)
Book
Cuddy, B., & Kattan, V. (Eds.). (2023). Making Endless War: The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law. University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12584508

Making Endless War is built on the premise that any attempt to understand how the content and function of the laws of war changed in the second half of the twentieth century should consider two major armed conflicts, fought on opposite edges of Asia,... Read More about Making Endless War: The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law.

The partitions of India and Palestine and the dawn of majority rule in Africa and Asia (2023)
Book Chapter
Kattan, V. (2023). The partitions of India and Palestine and the dawn of majority rule in Africa and Asia. In V. Kattan, & A. Ranjan (Eds.), The breakup of India and Palestine: The causes and legacies of partition. Manchester University Press

This chapter explains why majority rule remained the basis for the partition of the Indian subcontinent, but was not put into effect in Palestine as the Jewish population only formed a majority in one of Palestine’s subdistricts – the Jaffa subdistri... Read More about The partitions of India and Palestine and the dawn of majority rule in Africa and Asia.