Where the atlas looks

Eleven locations, six studies

The ground the arguments stand on

Every case in the atlas, located. The markers say where a study looks. They do not encode legal status. The drawing is monochrome because filling a territory would turn a contested legal conclusion into a visual premise.

Eleven locations, six studies Every case in the atlas, located. The markers say where a study looks. They do not encode legal status. The drawing is monochrome because filling a territory would turn a contested legal conclusion into a visual premise.
Drawn in the Equal Earth projection, in which areas are comparable. Mercator would inflate the metropolitan north and shrink almost every territory examined here, which is the opposite of the point.
ICase study I
  • Gaza and LebanonDocumented violations met with declaratory response
IICase study II
  • Puerto RicoUS unincorporated territory, not on the UN list since 1953
  • GuamUS unincorporated territory and UN Non-Self-Governing Territory
  • New CaledoniaFrench sui generis collectivity, UN Non-Self-Governing Territory
  • French GuianaFrench and EU territory under Article 73; outside Schengen; not on the UN list
IIICase study III
  • Iraq and SyriaInvasion and cumulative internationalisation
  • AfghanistanTwenty years of state building, then withdrawal
IVCase study IV
  • Caribbean SeaMaritime strikes in place of arrest and trial
  • Eastern PacificMaritime strikes in place of arrest and trial
VCase study V
  • VenezuelaUnlawful intervention, not a belligerent occupation at the date of the Swiss assessment
VICase study VI
  • Washington, D.C.Decision centre for debt policy, aid dismantling and external resource control