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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 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.

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.

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/10.4337/9781788971751.00028

This 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).

The United Kingdom's views on elections to the International Court of Justice during the Cold War (2021)
Journal Article
Kattan, V. (2021). The United Kingdom's views on elections to the International Court of Justice during the Cold War. Melbourne Journal of International Law, 21(3), 789-811

This article considers the process of nominating and electing candidates to the International Court of Justice ('ICJ') during the Cold War by focusing on a specific national encounter: the views of the United Kingdom government during elections to th... Read More about The United Kingdom's views on elections to the International Court of Justice during the Cold War.

The persistence of partition: Boundary-making, imperialism, and international law (2021)
Journal Article
Kattan, V. (2022). The persistence of partition: Boundary-making, imperialism, and international law. Political Geography, 94, Article 102557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102557

This article implores political geographers to engage with the sub-discipline's imperial roots in which international law was foundational. It does so by revisiting the practice of partition – defined here as an imposed boundary – which remains centr... Read More about The persistence of partition: Boundary-making, imperialism, and international law.

The Special Role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the Muslim Holy Shrines in Jerusalem (2020)
Journal Article
Kattan, V. (2021). The Special Role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the Muslim Holy Shrines in Jerusalem. Arab Law Quarterly, 35(5), 503-548. https://doi.org/10.1163/15730255-bja10031

This article explores the meaning of the Jerusalem clause in Article 9(2) of the Israel- Jordan Peace Treaty. It begins by considering the drafting of the clause, before analysing subsequent agreements between Israel, Palestine, and Jordan. The artic... Read More about The Special Role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the Muslim Holy Shrines in Jerusalem.

The Empire Departs: The Partitions of British India, Mandate Palestine, and the Dawn of Self-Determination in the Third World (2018)
Journal Article
Kattan, V. (2018). The Empire Departs: The Partitions of British India, Mandate Palestine, and the Dawn of Self-Determination in the Third World. Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, 12(3), 304-327. https://doi.org/10.1080/25765949.2018.1514173

This article argues that the political system established by the United Kingdom in British India and Mandate Palestine contributed to their partition in 1947. This is not to suggest that other factors – nationalism, anticolonialism, the Second World... Read More about The Empire Departs: The Partitions of British India, Mandate Palestine, and the Dawn of Self-Determination in the Third World.

Furthering the ‘war on terrorism’ through international law: how the United States and the United Kingdom resurrected the Bush doctrine on using preventive military force to combat terrorism (2017)
Journal Article
Kattan, V. (2018). Furthering the ‘war on terrorism’ through international law: how the United States and the United Kingdom resurrected the Bush doctrine on using preventive military force to combat terrorism. Journal on the Use of Force and International Law, 5(1), 97-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/20531702.2017.1376929

Self-Determination during the Cold War: UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (1960), the Prohibition of Partition, and the Establishment of the British Indian Ocean Territory (1965) (2016)
Journal Article
Kattan, V. (2016). Self-Determination during the Cold War: UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (1960), the Prohibition of Partition, and the Establishment of the British Indian Ocean Territory (1965). Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online, 19(1), 419-468. https://doi.org/10.1163/18757413-00190015

This article uses the history of partition to assess when self-determination became a rule of customary international law prohibiting partition as a method of decolonization. In so doing it revisits the partitions of Indochina, Korea, India, Palestin... Read More about Self-Determination during the Cold War: UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (1960), the Prohibition of Partition, and the Establishment of the British Indian Ocean Territory (1965).

Palestine’s Membership in the Commonwealth as a Contribution to a Lasting Peace in the Middle East (2015)
Journal Article
Kattan, V. (2015). Palestine’s Membership in the Commonwealth as a Contribution to a Lasting Peace in the Middle East. Round Table, 104(3), 297-305. https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2015.1053233

With the re-election of Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu for another four-year term as prime minister of Israel there is a real danger that the peace process has reached an irrevocable impasse. It is argued that bold moves must be considered by the in... Read More about Palestine’s Membership in the Commonwealth as a Contribution to a Lasting Peace in the Middle East.