Unrecognized States In The International System

Author : Nina Caspersen,Gareth Stansfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136849992

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Unrecognized States in the International System by Nina Caspersen,Gareth Stansfield Pdf

Unrecognized states are territories that have achieved de facto independence, yet have failed to gain international recognition as independent states. These territories constitute anomalies in the international system of sovereign states and often present significant challenges to policy makers, as evidenced by the war in Georgia and the continued debate over Kosovo’s independence. This book draws on both theory and case studies to better understand the phenomenon of unrecognized states, demonstrating that the existence of such entities is less unusual than previously assumed. Moving away from an overt focus on case studies, the chapters present various themes that link the emergence, operations, and development of unrecognized states and assess how the established order of states responds to the challenges they present: How do unrecognized interact with the international system of sovereign states? How does it shape their emergence, operations and development? How do these entities develop in a context of non-recognition? Are we witnessing a new form of statehood, or are these entities better understood as states-in-waiting? What are the strategies available for dealing with unrecognized states? Could power-sharing or autonomy provide a solution or are more innovative strategies necessary? With contributions from leading scholars in a number of fields, this book will appeal not only to students and scholars of Political Science, International Relations, Geography, Area Studies, Sociology, and Conflict Resolution, but also to journalists, government bodies and NGOs.

Author : Nina Caspersen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745660042

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Unrecognized States by Nina Caspersen Pdf

Unrecognized states are places that do not exist in international politics; they are state-like entities that have achieved de facto independence, but have failed to gain widespread international recognition. Since the Cold-War, unrecognized states have been involved in conflicts over sovereign statehood in the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, South Asia, the Horn of Africa, and the South Pacific; some of which elicited major international crises and intervention, including the use of armed force. Yet they remain subject to many myths and simplifications. Drawing on a number of contemporary and historical cases, from Nagorno Karabakh and Somaliland to Taiwan, this timely new book provides a comprehensive analysis of unrecognized states. It examines their origins, the factors that enable them to survive and explores their likely future trajectories. But it is not just a book about unrecognized states; it is a book about sovereignty and statehood; one which does not shy way from addressing crucial issues such as how these anomalies survive in a system of sovereign states and how the context of non-recognition affects their attempts to build effective state-like entities. Ideal for students and scholars of global politics, peace and conflict studies, Unrecognized States offers a much needed and engaging account of the development of unrecognized states in the modern international system.

Author : Martin Riegl,Bohumil Doboš
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319569130

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Unrecognized States and Secession in the 21st Century by Martin Riegl,Bohumil Doboš Pdf

This book presents novel theoretical and empirical findings on the issue of unrecognized states and secession. The first part of the book conceptualizes unrecognized states as entities with a national identity and which have achieved political independence, yet are not internationally recognized as independent states. It also addresses topics such as the role of superpowers in secessionist conflicts, ontological security in post-Soviet states, and factors influencing the legitimacy of secession referenda. In turn, the book’s second part presents selected case studies on various secessionist regions and territories, including Kurdistan, the Caucasus, Kosovo, and Bougainville.

Author : Sohail H. Hashmi
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0271041161

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State Sovereignty by Sohail H. Hashmi Pdf

Seven essays grapple with some of the paradoxes of national sovereignty in today's world, examining such dimensions as pan-Islamism, new approaches to international human rights, ethnic conflict, lessons from Yugoslavia, and Japan and the tropical forests of southeast Asia. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Vaughan Lowe
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191576201

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International Law: A Very Short Introduction by Vaughan Lowe Pdf

Interest in international law has increased greatly over the past decade, largely because of its central place in discussions such as the Iraq War and Guantanamo, the World Trade Organisation, the anti-capitalist movement, the Kyoto Convention on climate change, and the apparent failure of the international system to deal with the situations in Palestine and Darfur, and the plights of refugees and illegal immigrants around the world. This Very Short Introduction explains what international law is, what its role in international society is, and how it operates. Vaughan Lowe examines what international law can and cannot do and what it is and what it isn't doing to make the world a better place. Focussing on the problems the world faces, Lowe uses terrorism, environmental change, poverty, and international violence to demonstrate the theories and practice of international law, and how the principles can be used for international co-operation.

Author : Robert Schuett
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : International relations
ISBN : 9780748693634

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Concept of the State in International Relations by Robert Schuett Pdf

This volume ... systematically considers the nature of the state, the concept of sovereignty and the challenges globalisation and cosmopolitanism.--Provided by publisher.

Author : Bridget Coggins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107047358

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Power Politics and State Formation in the Twentieth Century by Bridget Coggins Pdf

From Kurdistan to Somaliland, Xinjiang to South Yemen, all secessionist movements hope to secure newly independent states of their own. Most will not prevail. The existing scholarly wisdom provides one explanation for success, based on authority and control within the nascent states. With the aid of an expansive new dataset and detailed case studies, this book provides an alternative account. It argues that the strongest members of the international community have a decisive influence over whether today's secessionists become countries tomorrow and that, most often, their support is conditioned on parochial political considerations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004499102

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Unrecognized Entities by Anonim Pdf

The book comprehensively discusses legal and political issues of non-recognized entities in the context of international and European Law, combining perspectives of international and European law with those of the non-recognized entities themselves.

Author : C. Daase,A. Geis,Caroline Fehl,Georgios Kolliarakis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137464729

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Recognition in International Relations by C. Daase,A. Geis,Caroline Fehl,Georgios Kolliarakis Pdf

Recognition is a basic human need, but it is not a panacea to all societal ills. This volume assembles contributions from International Relations, Political Theory and International Law in order to show that recognition is a gradual process and an ambiguous concept both in theory and political practice.

Author : Scott Pegg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000708578

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International Society and the De Facto State by Scott Pegg Pdf

Originally published in 1998, International Society and the De Facto Society explores the phenomenon of de facto statehood in contemporary international relations. The de facto state is almost the inverse of what Robert Jackson has termed the ‘quasi-state’. The quasi-state has an ambassador, a flag, and a seat at the United Nations, but it does not function positively as a viable governing entity. Its limitations though, do not detract from sovereign legitimacy. The de facto state, on the other hand, lacks legitimacy yet effectively controls a given territorial area and provides governmental services to a specific population. The book engages in a birth, life, and death or evolution examination of the de facto state.

Author : Tomáš Hoch,Vincenc Kopeček
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429534256

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De Facto States in Eurasia by Tomáš Hoch,Vincenc Kopeček Pdf

This book explores the phenomenon of de facto states in Eurasia: states such as Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic. It examines how they are formed, what sustains them, and how their differing development trajectories have unfolded. It argues that most of these de facto states have been formed with either direct or indirect support from Russia, but they all have their own internal logic and are not simply puppets in the hands of a powerful patron. The book provides detailed case studies and draws out general patterns, and compares present-day de facto states with de facto states which existed in the past.

Author : Emel Parlar Dal,Emre Erşen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030218324

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Russia in the Changing International System by Emel Parlar Dal,Emre Erşen Pdf

This volume seeks to explore Russia’s perceptions of the changing international system in the twenty-first century and evaluate the determinants of Russian motives, roles and strategies towards a number of contemporary regional and global issues. The chapters of the volume discuss various aspects of Russian foreign policy with regard to key actors like the U.S., EU and China; international organizations such as the BRICS, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Eurasian Economic Union and Collective Security Treaty Organization; and a number of regional conflicts including Ukraine and Syria. The contributors seek to understand how the discourses of “anti-Westernism” and “post-Westernism” are employed in the redefinition of Russia’s relations with the other actors of the international system and how Russia perceives the concept of “regional hegemony,” particularly in the former Soviet space and the Middle East.

Author : James R. Crawford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191511950

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The Creation of States in International Law by James R. Crawford Pdf

Statehood in the early 21st century remains as much a central problem as it was in 1979 when the first edition of The Creation of States in International Law was published. As Rhodesia, Namibia, the South African Homelands and Taiwan then were subjects of acute concern, today governments, international organizations, and other institutions are seized of such matters as the membership of Cyprus in the European Union, application of the Geneva Conventions to Afghanistan, a final settlement for Kosovo, and, still, relations between China and Taiwan. All of these, and many other disputed situations, are inseparable from the nature of statehood and its application in practice. The remarkable increase in the number of States in the 20th century did not abate in the twenty five years following publication of James Crawford's landmark study, which was awarded the American Society of International Law Prize for Creative Scholarship in 1981. The independence of many small territories comprising the 'residue' of the European colonial empires alone accounts for a major increase in States since 1979; while the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the USSR in the early 1990s further augmented the ranks. With these developments, the practice of States and international organizations has developed by substantial measure in respect of self-determination, secession, succession, recognition, de-colonization, and several other fields. Addressing such questions as the unification of Germany, the status of Israel and Palestine, and the continuing pressure from non-State groups to attain statehood, even, in cases like Chechnya or Tibet, against the presumptive rights of existing States, James Crawford discusses the relation between statehood and recognition; the criteria for statehood, especially in view of evolving standards of democracy and human rights; and the application of such criteria in international organizations and between states. Also discussed are the mechanisms by which states have been created, including devolution and secession, international disposition by major powers or international organizations and the institutions established for Mandated, Trust, and Non-Self-Governing Territories. Combining a general argument as to the normative significance of statehood with analysis of numerous specific cases, this fully revised and expanded second edition gives a comprehensive account of the developments which have led to the birth of so many new states.

Author : Ti-Chiang Chen
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : History
ISBN : 9785875231827

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The international law of recognition by Ti-Chiang Chen Pdf

Author : Rebecca Bryant,Mete Hatay
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812252217

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Sovereignty Suspended by Rebecca Bryant,Mete Hatay Pdf

What is de facto about the de facto state? In Sovereignty Suspended, this question guides Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay through a journey into de facto state-building, or the process of constructing an entity that looks like a state and acts like a state but that much of the world says does not or should not exist. In international law, the de facto state is one that exists in reality but remains unrecognized by other states. Nevertheless, such entities provide health care and social security, issue identity cards and passports, and interact with international aid donors. De facto states hold elections, conduct censuses, control borders, and enact fiscal policies. Indeed, most maintain representative offices in sovereign states and are able to unofficially communicate with officials. Bryant and Hatay develop the concept of the "aporetic state" to describe such entities, which project stateness and so seem real, even as nonrecognition renders them unrealizable. Sovereignty Suspended is based on more than two decades of ethnographic and archival research in one so-called aporetic state, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). It traces the process by which the island's "north" began to emerge as a tangible, separate, if unrecognized space following violent partition in 1974. Like other de facto states, the TRNC looks and acts like a state, appearing real to observers despite international condemnations, denials of its existence, and the belief of large numbers of its citizens that it will never be a "real" state. Bryant and Hatay excavate the contradictions and paradoxes of life in an aporetic state, arguing that it is only by rethinking the concept of the de facto state as a realm of practice that we will be able to understand the longevity of such states and what it means to live in them.