International law and the post-Soviet space. I, Essays on Chechnya and the Baltic States / Thomas D. Grant ; with a foreword by Stephen M. Schwebel.

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Intro; Outline Contents-Volume I; Foreword by Stephen M. Schwebel; Table of Abbreviations; Table of Cases; Table of Treaties and Other Instruments; Contents-Volume I; Author's Preface; Finding international law as a whole: The particular, the parochial, and the disputed; Why a generalist international lawyer's view of the post-Soviet space?; Works in context-and a work in progress; Acknowledgements; Part One: Chechnya in the Russian Federation; Introduction; Chapter 1 Chechnya; A. Historical background; 1. Geography and people; 2. The arrival of Russia and early resistance

3. Soviet period and mass deportation4. Collapse of the USSR and the separation of Chechnya; 5. The Chechen wars; B. Putative statehood; 1. The Chechen claim to independence; 2. Territorial integrity and non-recognition of the independence claim; 3. Ceasefire accords; 4. Other effects in international relations and international law; 5. Present situation and status of Chechnya in the Russian Federation; C. Human rights and humanitarian law in the Chechen conflict; 1. Council of Europe; 2. The OSCE mission; 3. UN subsidiary organs, treaty organs, and thematic rapporteurs; 4. State practice

5. Chechnya in the European Court of Human RightsD. Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Select Documents; Chapter 2 A Panel of Experts for Chechnya: Purposes and Prospects in Light of International Law; 1. Introduction; 2. Chechnya before Russia; 2.1 Land and people; 2.2 Claimants to authority; 3. Russia in Chechnya and Chechen responses; 3.1 Early Russian involvement; 3.2 Chechen resistance; 3.3 The nineteenth-century Chechen state as response to Russia; 3.4 External affairs of nineteenth-century Chechnya; 3.5 Russian power in Chechnya in the twentieth century

4. Consequences of a determination of non-acquisition4.1 Process of independence of Russia; 4.2 Process of independence of the other eleven non-Russian republics; 4.3 Process of independence of the Baltic republics; 5. Russia and the Territory of Chechnya; 5.1 Prescription; 5.2 Prescription, Russia, and Chechnya; 5.2.1 Duration; 5.2.2 Protest by competing claimant to title; 5.2.3 Protest by third States; 5.3 Illegal use of force: A root of title?; 5.3.1 Modern rejection of force as root of title; 5.3.2 Intertemporal law and earlier views of force and territorial acquisition

5.4 Self-determination and territorial integrity6. Conclusion; Chapter 3 Afghanistan Recognises Chechnya; Introduction; I. International legal status of the Taliban regime; II. Recognition from the margins: Earlier examples; III. Diplomatic measures to deter recognition; IV. Human rights and humanitarian law; V. Humanitarian recognition; A. Why recognise a State?; B. Recognising humanitarian concern: Biafra and other cases; C. Recognition as assistance; Conclusion: Recognition and solidarity; Part Two: The Baltic States; Introduction

The regions that once comprised the Soviet Union have been the scene of crises with serious implications for international law. Some of these, like the separatist conflict in Chechnya, date to the time of the dissolution of the USSR. Others, like Russia's forcible annexation of Crimea and intervention in Ukraine's Donbas, erupted years later. The seizure of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which took place long before, would trouble Soviet-western relations for the Cold War's duration and gained new relevance when the Baltic States reemerged in the 1990s. The fate of Ukraine notwithstanding, the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 complicates future efforts at nuclear nonproliferation. Legal proceedings in connection with events in the post-Soviet space brought before the International Court of Justice and under investment treaties or the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea may be steps toward the resolution of recent crises'or tests of the resiliency of modern international law.

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