'The Third World is a Problem”: Arguments about the Laws of War in the United States after the Fall of Saigon
(2023)
Book Chapter
Kattan, V. (2023). 'The Third World is a Problem”: Arguments about the Laws of War in the United States after the Fall of Saigon. In B. Cuddy, & V. Kattan (Eds.), Making Endless War: The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law (173-206). University of Michigan Press
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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 PressThis 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.
Jordan and Palestine: union (1950) and secession (1988) (2022)
Book Chapter
Kattan, V. (2022). Jordan and Palestine: union (1950) and secession (1988). In J. Vidmar, S. McGibbon, & L. Raible (Eds.), Research Handbook on Secession (275-292). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788971751.00028This chapter revisits the decision by King Hussein of Jordan in 1988 to recognise the right of the Palestinian people to secede from Jordan to establish an independent state in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. Surprisingly, internat... Read More about Jordan and Palestine: union (1950) and secession (1988).