Thomas D. Grant Knihy

The book delves into the Great Debate surrounding state recognition, highlighting its decline and exploring modern trends in international law that sustain its relevance. Grant challenges the prevailing declaratory view of recognition, suggesting that judicial sources often cited do not support it as strongly as believed. He argues that the contemporary preference for declaratory doctrine aligns with aspirations for a more regulated international governance, which minimizes state discretion in defining statehood.

This volume deals with legal issues concerning Russia’s annexation of Crimea and intervention in the Donbas, so-called ‘frozen conflicts’ and ‘hybrid warfare,’ the use of courts and tribunals to address armed aggression, and the implications of recent events for the security guarantees connected to nuclear non-proliferation. Continuing from the first volume, which contains Parts One and Two on Chechnya and the Baltic States, this book is comprised of Part Three—Ukraine and other successor States: Territorial Integrity and its Challengers in the Post-Soviet Space; Part Four—Intervention and International Law; Part Five—Legal Proceedings and Unlawful Claims; and Part Six—Non-Proliferation after Budapest.

Containing illustrations from archival material, this book scrutinizes two sets of hitherto understudied records:* SA morale reports in the US National Archive which show what Nazi leaders themselves knew about their radical paramilitary wing* police reports on the stormtroopers, from the former DDR state archive in Potsdam which show what Republican authorities knew.Stormtroopers and Crisis in the Nazi Movement casts fresh light on the crisis that beset Nazism during the final months of Germany's first republic.