Acknowledgments
This book project wouldn’t come to fruition without the continued support of my family and my wife Dorothy Zhang in particular whose wisdom and humanist virtues of compromise, tolerance, patience and mutual respect reminds me everyday that our lives can be more enriching and harmonious and make me hopeful that our ever-complex, divided and violent world can also embrace the unity in its diversity.
I have been very fortunate to work in the dynamic and vibrant research environment of the KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (sjtu), together with inspiring, talented and kind colleagues and wish to extend my deepest thank to them, especially Robin Chen, Jinhua Cheng, Yuanyuan Fu, Qi Gao, Dan Guttman, Liyang Hou, Jiaxiang Hu, Weidong Ji, Yan Lin, Kang Liu, Xinli Ma, Wei Shen, Huoji Wang, Nan Wang, Xianlin Wang, Donggen Xu, Guifang Xue, Li Yang, Dan Liu, Lulu Yang, Yue Yuan, Winston Zee, Yangbo Zhang, Huiyi Zhao, Yibing Zhao, Ge Zheng, Cici Zhou and Jun Zhu.
Furthermore, I would like to gratefully acknowledge the generous financial support of sjtu through its Chinese Foreign Expert Grant (2016–2017) as well as Leo KoGuan of the KoGuan Foundation for the KoGuan Youth Legal Scholarship (2012 – present) that made this research possible.
I am indebted to my other friends and colleagues who have been supportive of this project in numerable ways: Antony Anghie (nus), Mashood Baderin (soas), Jean-Marc Blanchard (ecnu), Muin Boas (soas), Maria Adele Carrai (Princeton-Harvard), Anthony Carty (Tsinghua), Kay-Wah Chan (Macquarie), John Chao (ncu Taiwan), Weitseng Chen (nus), Yifeng Chen (pku), Matthew Craven (soas), Ignacio De La Rasilla Del Moral (Brunel), Bruno Demeyere (icrc), Jean-Philippe Dequen (Max Planck), Richard Desgagné (icrc), Matthew Erie (Oxford), Hiroshi Fukurai (uc Davis), Robin Geiβ (Glasgow), Tom Ginsburg (Chicago), Lyle Goldstein (us Naval War College), Gregory Gordon (cuhk), Jean-Marie Henckaerts (icrc), Bin Jiang (icrc), Jianqiang Guan (ecupl), Andrew Harding (nus), Zhipeng He (Jilin), Bingbing Jia (Tsinghua), Pyoung Keun Kang (Korea University), Victor Kattan (nus), Shen Kui (pku), Raj Kumar (jgu), Courtney Kung (hku), Masahiro Kurosaki (Japan National Defense Academy), Rick Lawson (Leiden), Hee Eun Lee (Handong), June Lee (cuhk), Seokwoo Lee (Inha), Xinyu Leng (cupl), Qiang Li (cupl), Weihai Li (cupl), Michael Liu (ciicj), Sida Liu (Toronto), Jing Men (College of Europe), Setsuo Miyazawa (uc Hastings), Roda Mushkat (John Hopkins Nanjing), Toshi Nakamura (un), Yumiko Nakanishi (Hitotsubashi), Jan Michiel Otto (Leiden), Yaqing Qin (China Foreign Affairs University), Javaid Rehman (Brunel), Mohammad Shahabuddin (Birmingham), Hongsheng Sheng (supsl), Makoto Tajimi (Hitotsubashi), Carol Tan (soas), Lipin Tien (Taiwan ndu), Nira Wickramasinghe (Leiden), William Worster (The Hague University), Sienho Yee (Wuhan), Simon Young (hku), Wen Zhou (icrc), Lei Zhang (ecupl), Miao Zhang (Nanjing), Jun Zhao (Zhejiang), Zhihua Zeng (ecupl), Lu Zhian (Fudan), Lijiang Zhu (cupl) and Wenqi Zhu (Renmin).
Special thanks to my students at sjtu for their wonderful research assistance: Muhemmed Amin, Kogamova Aziza, Dennis Blatt, Siyi Gu, Mengdi Jiang, Xiaoying Jiang, Jin Jie, Tooba Khurshid Nong Li, Xiaowen Liu, Xiao Mao, Jing Miao, Haochen Sun, Alia Tian, Emma Wang, Iris Wang, Pingping Wang, Kris Yu and Yi Zhao as well as to John Clark for his excellent proofreading.
I would like to thank Oxford University Press too for reproducing here parts of earlier work published in the Chinese Journal of International Law1 and Chinese Journal of International Politics.2
Finally, I am particularly grateful to the Series Editors, Ruoyi Li (cupl) and Wei Zhang (cupl), for their constructive feedback and to my colleagues –editors at Brill/Nijhoff, Marie Sheldon, Lindy Melman, Anna Schmitt Nagelbach, Bea Timmer and Prince Xavier (SPi) for their professionalism and for overseeing the production of this volume.
Matthias Vanhullebusch 马天赐
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai, China
Summer 2017