Stephan Hensell is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen. He has held positions as researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy and at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Hamburg. He was Visiting Research Fellow at the Changing Character of War Programme, University of Oxford and has done field research in Georgia, Albania, Kosovo, Morocco, Western Sahara, Algeria, and Belgium. His research interests include state theory, civil wars, armed groups, international organizations, and EU politics.Klaus Schlichte is Professor of International Relations and World Society at the University of Bremen. With an interest in global political sociology, Schlichte carried out research in Senegal, Mali, Serbia, France and Uganda and taught at Science-Po, Paris, the University of Washington, Seattle, the OECD Academy in Bishkek, and at several German universities. Apart from numerous works in German, he is the author of In the Shadow of Violence: The Politics of Armed Groups (Campus, Frankfurt/Main, 2009), and the co-editor of The Historicity of International Politics: Imperialism and the Presence of the Past (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

• 1: Stephan Hensell and Klaus Schlichte: Fighting for Legitimacy: Armed Groups and the Politics of International Legitimation 2: Robert J. McMahon: Decolonization and the Cold War: The Superpowers and the Anti-colonial Insurgencies in Indonesia and Vietnam 3: Stephan Hensell: Western Sahara, the Polisario, and the Struggle for International Legitimacy 4: Eline van Ommen: The FSLN and the Politics of Legitimation in the Cold War: Sandinista Revolutionaries and Transnational Activism 5: Andrea Oñate-Madrazo: Tequila Diplomacy: MexicanDSFMLN Relations in the Early Salvadoran Civil War 6: Klaus Schlichte: <'When we became stronger, they listened more> ': The Politics of Legitimation of the NRA in Uganda (1981DS1986) 7: Reyko Huang: The Politics of Mutual Legitimation: UNITA, Lobbyists, and Washington in the Angolan Civil War 8: Christian Olsson: Between the <'Dome of the Rock> ' and a Hard Place: Fatah and the Trade-off between Armed Struggle and International Legitimacy 9: Leila Seurat: From Government to Armed Struggle: Hamas> 's Legitimation Politics 10: Ahmed Elsayed: Recognition on their Own Terms?: The Paradox of the Taliban> 's Quest for International Legitimacy 11: Wolfram Lacher: The Astonishingly Easy Path to International Legitimacy of Khalifa Haftar> 's LAAF Stephan Hensell and Klaus Schlichte: Conclusions Friedrich Kratochwil: Some Further Thoughts

Stephan Hensell is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen. He has held positions as researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy and at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Hamburg. He was Visiting Research Fellow at the Changing Character of War Programme, University of Oxford and has done field research in Georgia, Albania, Kosovo, Morocco, Western Sahara, Algeria, and Belgium. His research interests include state theory, civil wars, armed groups, international organizations, and EU politics.Klaus Schlichte is Professor of International Relations and World Society at the University of Bremen. With an interest in global political sociology, Schlichte carried out research in Senegal, Mali, Serbia, France and Uganda and taught at Science-Po, Paris, the University of Washington, Seattle, the OECD Academy in Bishkek, and at several German universities. Apart from numerous works in German, he is the author of In the Shadow of Violence: The Politics of Armed Groups (Campus, Frankfurt/Main, 2009), and the co-editor of The Historicity of International Politics: Imperialism and the Presence of the Past (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

• 1: Stephan Hensell and Klaus Schlichte: Fighting for Legitimacy: Armed Groups and the Politics of International Legitimation 2: Robert J. McMahon: Decolonization and the Cold War: The Superpowers and the Anti-colonial Insurgencies in Indonesia and Vietnam 3: Stephan Hensell: Western Sahara, the Polisario, and the Struggle for International Legitimacy 4: Eline van Ommen: The FSLN and the Politics of Legitimation in the Cold War: Sandinista Revolutionaries and Transnational Activism 5: Andrea Oñate-Madrazo: Tequila Diplomacy: MexicanDSFMLN Relations in the Early Salvadoran Civil War 6: Klaus Schlichte: <'When we became stronger, they listened more> ': The Politics of Legitimation of the NRA in Uganda (1981DS1986) 7: Reyko Huang: The Politics of Mutual Legitimation: UNITA, Lobbyists, and Washington in the Angolan Civil War 8: Christian Olsson: Between the <'Dome of the Rock> ' and a Hard Place: Fatah and the Trade-off between Armed Struggle and International Legitimacy 9: Leila Seurat: From Government to Armed Struggle: Hamas> 's Legitimation Politics 10: Ahmed Elsayed: Recognition on their Own Terms?: The Paradox of the Taliban> 's Quest for International Legitimacy 11: Wolfram Lacher: The Astonishingly Easy Path to International Legitimacy of Khalifa Haftar> 's LAAF Stephan Hensell and Klaus Schlichte: Conclusions Friedrich Kratochwil: Some Further Thoughts

Stephan Hensell is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen. He has held positions as researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy and at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Hamburg. He was Visiting Research Fellow at the Changing Character of War Programme, University of Oxford and has done field research in Georgia, Albania, Kosovo, Morocco, Western Sahara, Algeria, and Belgium. His research interests include state theory, civil wars, armed groups, international organizations, and EU politics.Klaus Schlichte is Professor of International Relations and World Society at the University of Bremen. With an interest in global political sociology, Schlichte carried out research in Senegal, Mali, Serbia, France and Uganda and taught at Science-Po, Paris, the University of Washington, Seattle, the OECD Academy in Bishkek, and at several German universities. Apart from numerous works in German, he is the author of In the Shadow of Violence: The Politics of Armed Groups (Campus, Frankfurt/Main, 2009), and the co-editor of The Historicity of International Politics: Imperialism and the Presence of the Past (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

• 1: Stephan Hensell and Klaus Schlichte: Fighting for Legitimacy: Armed Groups and the Politics of International Legitimation 2: Robert J. McMahon: Decolonization and the Cold War: The Superpowers and the Anti-colonial Insurgencies in Indonesia and Vietnam 3: Stephan Hensell: Western Sahara, the Polisario, and the Struggle for International Legitimacy 4: Eline van Ommen: The FSLN and the Politics of Legitimation in the Cold War: Sandinista Revolutionaries and Transnational Activism 5: Andrea Oñate-Madrazo: Tequila Diplomacy: MexicanDSFMLN Relations in the Early Salvadoran Civil War 6: Klaus Schlichte: <'When we became stronger, they listened more> ': The Politics of Legitimation of the NRA in Uganda (1981DS1986) 7: Reyko Huang: The Politics of Mutual Legitimation: UNITA, Lobbyists, and Washington in the Angolan Civil War 8: Christian Olsson: Between the <'Dome of the Rock> ' and a Hard Place: Fatah and the Trade-off between Armed Struggle and International Legitimacy 9: Leila Seurat: From Government to Armed Struggle: Hamas> 's Legitimation Politics 10: Ahmed Elsayed: Recognition on their Own Terms?: The Paradox of the Taliban> 's Quest for International Legitimacy 11: Wolfram Lacher: The Astonishingly Easy Path to International Legitimacy of Khalifa Haftar> 's LAAF Stephan Hensell and Klaus Schlichte: Conclusions Friedrich Kratochwil: Some Further Thoughts