Dr. Sharon Korman read International Relations as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. She is a former Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford. Her Oxford doctorate, on which this book is based, won the British International Studies Association Prize for the Best PhD on International Relations in the United Kingdom.

"This is a very well done book in a familiar...genre....Korman's book is particularly good of its type."--The American Journal of International Law

"A work of sweeping scope...balanced and judicious. The thinking is lucid yet refined. Korman's work is the most up-to-date study of seizure of territories, and the only one that charts the progress of both the ideology and the application of the right of conquest and the political events and legal principles that gradually undermined and finally dismantled it." -- Stanford Journal of International Law

"The book...won the affection of this reviewer for the elegance of its style and the lightness with which Dr Korman wears her learning...There can be few more important issues than that addressed by Dr Korman in this elegant and erudite book; and it is hard to imagine a better written analysis of it."--War in History (reviewer: Vaughan Lowe QC, Chichele Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford)

"An impressive and deeply analytical book."--International and Comparative Law Quarterly

"...immensely stimulating."--British Year Book of International Law

"...a brilliant study."--French Yearbook of International Law

"[A]n excellent doctrinal history... Korman's intense passion for her subject is clear."--American Journal of International Law (reviewer: Professor David Kennedy, Harvard Law School)

"This stimulating book deals with a long-neglected and often-misunderstood subject."--Edinburgh Law Review

"Written in a lucid style that sets it apart from many works on international law, the work combines meticulous scholarship in international law with forward-looking International Relations thinking."--Non-Offensive Defense & Conversion