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Thomas D. Grant

Publications & commentary

Full list of publications & commentary

Books

book cover Admission to the United Nations: Charter Article 4 and the Rise of Universal Organization Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2009 [more on public international law]
book cover Lobbying, Government Relations, and Campaign Finance Worldwide (edited collection)Oceana / Oxford University Press, 2005
book cover Stormtroopers and crisis in the Nazi movement London: Routledge, 2004 [more on history]
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The recognition of states: Law and Practice in Debate and Evolution
Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1999 [more on public international law]
Chechnya and the struggle for sovereignty monograph in development, based on Ph.D. dissertation [more on public international law]

Journal articles

Foreign Takeovers of United States Airlines: Free Trade Problems, Process, and Progress vol. 31 Harvard Journal on Legislation(Winter 1994), 63-151 [more on commerce]
Toward a Swiss Solution for an American Problem: An Alternative Approach to Banks in the War on Drugs vol. 14 Annual Review of Banking Law (1995), 225-268 [more on commerce]
Territorial Status, Recognition, and Statehood: Some Aspects of the Genocide Case (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Yugoslavia) vol. 33(2) Stanford journal of International law (1997), 305-341 [more on public international law]
Defining Statehood: The Montevideo Convention and its Discontents vol. 37(2) Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (1999), 403-457 [more on public international law]
Internationally Guaranteed Constitutive Order: Cyprus and Bosnia as predicates vol. 8(1) Journal of Transnational Law & Policy (1999), 1-55 [more on public international law]
A Panel of Experts for Chechnya: Purposes and Prospects in Light of International Law vol. 40(1) Virginia Journal of International Law (1999), 115-192 (appeared in longer form in 1998 FINNISH YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW spring 2000, 145-248) [more on public international law]
Taiwan Trouble vol. 4(4) American Diplomacy (1999) [more on security]
The United Nations Order and Rebuilding Domestic Order: The Case of Kosovo vol. III(7-8) Foreign Policy (Romania) (fall-winter 1999-2000), 96-134 [more on public international law]
Extending Decolonization: How the United Nations might have addressed Kosovo vol. 20(1) Georgia Journal of International and Comparitive Law (spring 2000), 9-54 [more on public international law]
East Timor, the United Nations System, and Enforcing Non-Recognition under International Law vol. 33(2) Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (spring 2000), 273-310 [more on public international law]
Hallstein Revisited: Unilateral Enforcement of Regimes of Non-Recognition since the Two Germanies vol. 36(2) Stanford Journal of International Law (summer 2000), 221-251 [more on public international law]
Afghanistan Recognizes Chechnya vol. 15(4) American University International Law Review (spring 2000), 869-894 [more on public international law]
States Newly Admitted to the United Nations: Some Implications vol. 39(1) Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (fall 2000), 177-192 [more on public international law]
United States Practice Regarding Non-Recognition of the Annexation of the Baltic States, 1940-1991 1 Baltic Yearbook of International Law (inaugural volume, spring 2001), 23-110 [more on public international law] [more on history]
Bin Laden's Grand Miscalculation Foreign Policy Research Institute E-Notes (Friday, October 16, 2001) [more on security]
China's Stake in a Secure Taiwan China Brief: A Journal of News and Analysis (Jamestown Foundation), vol. 1, issue 9, November 8, 2001 [more on security]
Turkey: Help the Indispensable Ally American Diplomacy, January 2002 [more on security]
Terror Today: Measuring the Cost, Calculating the Response Current History, vol. 101, April 2002 (two-author article), 184-186 [more on security]
'Open Skies' deals hit legal turbulence European Voice, 30 May-5 June 2002, p. 18 [more on commerce]
Turkey Embraces Arbitration as Step Toward Global Economic Integration New York Bar Journal (July 2002), 46-49 [more on commerce]
An End to 'Divide and Conquer'? EU May Move Toward More United Approach in Negotiating 'Open Skies' Agreements with USA Journal of Air Law & Commerce, vol. 67, no. 4 (fall 2002), 1057-1070 [more on commerce]
A Reply to Immanuel Wallerstein Foreign Policy (Washington, DC) (November/December 2002) (two-author letter), 6 [more on security]
Gibraltar on the Rocks Policy Review, No. 116 (December 2002/January 2003), 57-67 [more on security]
Executive Diplomacy: Toward a Statecraft of Integration, Consensus, and Leadership in Managing American Power International Affairs, vol. 79, no. 1 (Chatham House) (January 2003) (two-author article), 37-51 [more on security]
The Security Council and Iraq: An Incremental Practice vol. 97(4) American Journal of International Law 823-42 (2003) [more on public international law]
German Dreadnoughts and the Saudi Bomb: Why we should be wary of Saudi Arabia International Relations vol. XI, no. 5 (August 2003), 405-410 [more on security] [more on history]
Partition of Failed States: Impediments and Impulses vol. 11(2) Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (2004), 51-82 [more on public international law]
International Responsibility and the Admission of States to the United Nations Michigan Journal of International Law forthcoming (2009)
A League of Their Own: the international law rationale for a League of Democracies George Washington International Law Review forthcoming (2009)
Regulating the Creation of States: How statehood has changed since 1945 and what the UN has to do with it work in progress

Chapters in Encyclopaedias & Multi-Author Works

Federalism with International Guarantee: International Organizations and the New Constitutions of Some ‘Failed’ or ‘Failing’ States: chapter in Thomas Giegerich (ed.) The EU Accession of Cyprus-Key to the Political and Legal Solution of an 'Insoluable' Ethnic Conflict? (Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlag, 2006), 137-60
The Harvard Drafts on International Responsibility: chapter in CJ Barker & J Grant (eds) The Harvard Research in International Law: A Contemporary Analysis and Appraisal (Buffalo, New York: W.S. Hein & Co., 2007)(co-authored with James Crawford)
The International Court of Justice: chapter in Sam Daws & Thomas Weiss (eds) Oxford Handbook of the United Nations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)(co-authored with James Crawford)
Doctrines (Monroe, Hallstein, Brezhnev, Stimson): entry in R Wolfrum (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
Micro-States: entry in R Wolfrum (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
Local Remedies, Exhaustion of: entry in R Wolfrum (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) (co-authored with James Crawford)

Reviews

Between Diversity and Disorder: review article of Jorri C. Duursma, Fragmentation and the International Relations of Micro-states: Self-determination and Statehood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) vol. 12(4) American University Journal of International Law and Policy (1997), 629-86 [more on public international law]
An Institution Restored?: review article of M.J.Peterson, Recognition of Governments: Legal Doctrine and State Practice 1815–1995 (New York: St Martin's Press Inc., London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1997) vol. 39(1) Virginia Journal of International Law (1998), 101-37 [more on public international law]
Review essay of Martin Van Creveld, The Rise and Decline of the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) vol. 9(2) Journal of Transnational Law & Policy (summer 2000), 309-329 [more on public international law]
Book review of Brad Roth, Government Illegitimacy in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999) European Journal of International Law vol. 11, no. 3 (2000), 739-744 [more on public international law]
Book review of David J. Bederman, International Law in Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) Co-authored with William Allan, American Journal of International Law vol. 97, no. 1 (January 2003), 218-220 [more on public international law]

Chapters in Encyclopaedias & Multi-Author Works

Federalism with International Guarantee: International Organizations and the New Constitutions of Some ‘Failed’ or ‘Failing’ States: chapter in Thomas Giegerich (ed.) The EU Accession of Cyprus-Key to the Political and Legal Solution of an 'Insoluable' Ethnic Conflict? (Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlag, 2006), 137-60
The Harvard Drafts on International Responsibility: chapter in CJ Barker & J Grant (eds) The Harvard Research in International Law: A Contemporary Analysis and Appraisal (Buffalo, New York: W.S. Hein & Co., 2007)(co-authored with James Crawford)
The International Court of Justice: chapter in Sam Daws & Thomas Weiss (eds) Oxford Handbook of the United Nations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)(co-authored with James Crawford)
Doctrines (Monroe, Hallstein, Brezhnev, Stimson): entry in R Wolfrum (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
Micro-States: entry in R Wolfrum (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
Local Remedies, Exhaustion of: entry in R Wolfrum (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) (co-authored with James Crawford)

Editorial commentary and news analysis

Confederation Will Not Answer the 'China Question' Asian Wall Street Journal (Wednesday, July 19, 2000, Cross-Strait Relations, p. 8) [more on public international law]
The Sanctions on Austria Were Futile: Except that they made the case against deepening the EU. The road now leads to eastward expansion Wall Street Journal Europe (Wednesday, September 13, 2000, Editorials & Opinion) (also appeared in Asian Wall Street Journal Thursday, September 14, 2000, p. 10) [more on public international law] [more on commerce]
Iraq: How to reconcile conflicting obligations of occupation and reform ASIL Insights June 2003 [more on public international law]
The EU Trust Territory of Kosovo Wall Street Journal Europe August 25, 2004, p A8 (co-authored with Congressman Doug Bereuter (R. Nebraska)) [more on public international law] [more on security]
From the Paulskirche to Tiananmen Square The Free China Journal (March 19, 1993) [more on security]
Chechnya Sounds Alarm of a Russian Breakup The New York Times (Thursday December 29, 1994, A20, letter to the editor) [more on security]
The New Tinder Box: The Kosovo Crisis The Seattle Times (Sunday, March 22, 1998, Editorial Page, B5) [more on security]
The Complications of Arming Kosovo Rebels Indianapolis Star (Sunday, April 11, 1999, Editorial Page, D4) [more on security]
Clans Inside Kosovo Could Complicate Refugee Homecoming Kansas City Star (Saturday, June 5, 1999, Editorial Page) [more on security]
Heating Oil's Link to a Nation at War Baltimore Sun (Thursday, February 17, 2000, Opinion Page, B7) [more on security]
Don't Let Echelon Spook You: The allegations of industrial espionage should not obscure the larger issues at stake in Europe The Wall Street Journal Europe (Thursday, March 2, 2000, Editorials & Opinion) [more on security] [more on commerce]
Don't Let Russia Swallow Georgia The Wall Street Journal Europe (March 30, 2001) [more on security]
Administration should stay the course The Sun Chronicle (Thursday, May 10, 2001, p. 9) [more on security]
Law, Diplomacy and Missile Defense San Diego Union-Tribune (Friday, May 11, 2001, Opinion, p. B13) (also appeared in Saturday/Sunday, May 12-13, 2001 Bangor Daily News p. A11) [more on security]
Let Turkey, Our Best Muslim Ally, Join the Club Los Angeles Times (Thursday, November 15, 2001, Commentary, B11) [more on security]
Is Carving Up Afghanistan an Option? Los Angeles Times (Monday, December 10, 2001, Commentary, B13) [more on security]
Turkish Cyprus is distinct from and equal to Greek Cyprus Washington Times (Monday, December 10, 2001, letter to the editor) [more on security]
Countries Worth Rescuing. The U.S. anti-terrorism operation in Georgia may help restore stability-and sovereignty-to a friendly nation Wall Street Journal Europe (Thursday, February 28, 2002, Editorials & Opinion, p. A6) [more on security]
For an Iraq Amnesty Washington Post Tuesday, August 20, 2002, p. A 13 (op-ed) [more on security]
Plentiful Rewards: The other dividends of Iraqi regime change National Review Online September 6, 2002 (Guest Comment) [more on security]
Bush, Iraq and the British Response: What's In It for Blair? In the National Interest September 18, 2002 [more on security]
A Question of Legality? Sentiments in Britain In the National Interest March 26, 2003 [more on security]
A postwar plan Baltimore Sun Sunday, April 6, 2003 (opinion) [more on security]
Secrets from the Iraqi Archives: Russian Aid, British Response In the National Interest vol. 2, issue 15, Wednesday, April 16, 2003 [more on security]
Gates Banks on Cambridge Connection The Seattle Times (Friday, June 6, 1997, Editorial Page, B5) [more on commerce]
U.S. Should End the Limit on High-Tech Visas San Francisco Chronicle (Wednesday, September 6, 2000, Editorial, p. A21) [more on commerce]
Special: America Needs High-Tech Workers ThinkIndia.com (Saturday, September 9, 2000) [more on commerce]
U.S. Should Remove Ceiling on High-Tech Visas Portland Oregonian (Thursday, September 28, 2000, Editorial page) [more on commerce]
Unholy Alliance: When the Right and the Left Meet: The fight against the EU's takeover directive brought together not-so-strange bedfellows Wall Street Journal Europe (Thursday, July 26, 2001, Editorials & Opinion) [more on commerce]