This book investigates how states and secessionists seek to resolve questions of de facto control in the aftermath of secessionist wars. The work presents a study of the termination and aftermath of separatist wars, using two in-depth case studies - the Georgia-Abkhazia conflict (1994-2006) and the Serbia-Kosovo conflict (1999-2008) - to develop an empirically grounded theoretical framework to explain state and secessionist strategies for...