Geopolitical anomalies : exceptionalities and regularities of international politics.
Journal: University of Canterbury Research Repository (University of Canterbury)
Year: 2016

As international law and legally recognised states have been generally taken as the primary structures and actors of international politics, polities without those legal rights and privileges have been subordinated as rather insignificant in international relations. Over the past few years, however, events in Ukraine, as well as in Iraq and Syria, have reminded us of the persistence of such unrecognised polities claiming a semblance of statehood in international politics. This thesis, therefore,