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How do emerging states obtain international recognition and secure
membership of international organisations in contemporary world
politics? This book provides the first in-depth study of Kosovo's
diplomatic approach to becoming a sovereign state by obtaining
international recognition and securing membership of international
organisations. Analysing the everyday diplomatic discourses,
performances, and entanglements, this book contends that
state-becoming is not wholly determined by systemic factors,
normative institutions, or the preferences of great powers; the
diplomatic agency of the fledgling state plays a far more important
role than is generally acknowledged. Drawing on institutional
ethnographic research and first-hand observations, this book argues
that Kosovo's diplomatic success in consolidating its sovereign
statehood has been the situational assemblage of multiple
discourses, practiced through a broad variety of performative
actions, and shaped by a complex entanglement with global
assemblages of norms, actors, relations, and events. Accordingly,
this book contributes to expanding our understanding of the
everyday diplomatic agency of emerging states and the changing
norms, politics, and practices regarding the diplomatic recognition
of states and their admission to international society.
This new handbook provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary
overview of the theoretical and empirical aspects of state
recognition in international politics. Although the recognition of
states plays a central role in shaping global politics, it remains
an under-researched and widely dispersed subject. Coherently and
innovatively structured, the handbook brings together a group of
international scholars who examine the most important theoretical
and comparative perspectives on state recognition, including
debates about pathways to secession and self-determination, the
broad range of actors and strategies that shape the recognition of
states and a significant number of contemporary case studies. The
handbook is organised into four key sections: Theoretical and
normative perspectives Pathways to independent statehood Actors,
forms and the process of state recognition Case studies of
contemporary state recognition This handbook will be of great
interest to students of foreign policy, international relations,
international law, comparative politics and area studies. Chapter
19 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access
PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license
https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-State-Recognition/Visoka-Doyle-Newman/p/book/9780815354871
How do emerging states obtain international recognition and secure
membership of international organisations in contemporary world
politics? This book provides the first in-depth study of Kosovo's
diplomatic approach to becoming a sovereign state by obtaining
international recognition and securing membership of international
organisations. Analysing the everyday diplomatic discourses,
performances, and entanglements, this book contends that
state-becoming is not wholly determined by systemic factors,
normative institutions, or the preferences of great powers; the
diplomatic agency of the fledgling state plays a far more important
role than is generally acknowledged. Drawing on institutional
ethnographic research and first-hand observations, this book argues
that Kosovo's diplomatic success in consolidating its sovereign
statehood has been the situational assemblage of multiple
discourses, practiced through a broad variety of performative
actions, and shaped by a complex entanglement with global
assemblages of norms, actors, relations, and events. Accordingly,
this book contributes to expanding our understanding of the
everyday diplomatic agency of emerging states and the changing
norms, politics, and practices regarding the diplomatic recognition
of states and their admission to international society.
This book examines the adverse impacts of liberal peacebuilding in
conflict-affected societies. It introduces 'peace figuration' as a
new analytical framework for studying the intentionality,
performativity, and consequences of liberal peacebuilding. The work
challenges current theories and views and searches for alternative
non-conflicted research avenues that are suitable for understanding
how peacebuilding intentions are made, how different events shape
peace outcomes, and what are the consequences of peacebuilding
interventions. Drawing on detailed case studies of peacebuilding in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Timor-Leste, the book argues
that attempts to build peace often fail to achieve the intended
outcomes. A figurational view of peacebuilding interventions shows
that post-conflict societies experience multiple episodes of
success and failure in an unpredictable trajectory. This book
develops a relational sociology of peacebuilding impact, which is
crucial for overcoming static measurement of peacebuilding
successes or failures. It shows that international interventions
can shape peace but, importantly, not always in the shape they
intended. This book will be of much interest to students of
statebuilding, peacebuilding, war and conflict studies, security
studies and IR.
Despite calls for the decolonisation of knowledge, scholars who
come from conflict-affected societies remained marginalised,
excluded from the examination of the politics and impacts of
liberal interventionism. This edited volume gives local scholars a
platform from which they critically examine different aspects of
liberal interventionism and statebuilding in Kosovo. Drawing on
situational epistemologies and grounded approaches, the chapters in
this book interrogate a wide range of themes, including: the
politics of local resistance; the uneven relationship between
international statebuilders and local subjects; faking of local
ownership of security sector reform and the rule of law; heuristic
and practical limits of interventionism, as well as the subjugated
voices in statebuilding process, such as minorities and women. The
book finds that the local is not antidote to the liberal, and that
local perspectives are not monolithic. Yet, local critiques of
statebuilding do not seek to generate replicable knowledge; rather
they prefer generating situational and context-specific knowledge
be that to resolve problems or uncover the unresolved problems. The
book seeks to contribute to critical peace and conflict studies by
(re)turning the local turn to local scholars who come from
conflict-affected societies and who have themselves experienced the
transition from war to peace. This book is essential reading for
students and scholars of peace- and state-building, conflict
studies and international relations.
This book examines the adverse impacts of liberal peacebuilding in
conflict-affected societies. It introduces 'peace figuration' as a
new analytical framework for studying the intentionality,
performativity, and consequences of liberal peacebuilding. The work
challenges current theories and views and searches for alternative
non-conflicted research avenues that are suitable for understanding
how peacebuilding intentions are made, how different events shape
peace outcomes, and what are the consequences of peacebuilding
interventions. Drawing on detailed case studies of peacebuilding in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Timor-Leste, the book argues
that attempts to build peace often fail to achieve the intended
outcomes. A figurational view of peacebuilding interventions shows
that post-conflict societies experience multiple episodes of
success and failure in an unpredictable trajectory. This book
develops a relational sociology of peacebuilding impact, which is
crucial for overcoming static measurement of peacebuilding
successes or failures. It shows that international interventions
can shape peace but, importantly, not always in the shape they
intended. This book will be of much interest to students of
statebuilding, peacebuilding, war and conflict studies, security
studies and IR.
This book explores the prospects and limits of international
intervention in building peace and creating a new state in an
ethnically divided society and fragmented international order. The
book offers a critical account of the international missions in
Kosovo and traces the effectiveness of fluid forms of
interventionism. It also explores the co-optation of peace by
ethno-nationalist groups and explores how their contradictory
perception of peace produced an ungovernable peace, which has been
manifested with intractable ethnic antagonisms, state capture, and
ignorance of the root causes, drivers, and consequences of the
conflict. Under these conditions, prospects for emancipatory peace
have not come from external actors, ethno-nationalist elite, and
critical resistance movements, but from local and everyday acts of
peace formation and agnostic forms for reconciliation. The book
proposes an emancipatory agenda for peace in Kosovo embedded on
post-ethnic politics and joint commitments to peace, a
comprehensive agenda for reconciliation, people-centred security,
and peace-enabling external assistance.
This book explores the prospects and limits of international
intervention in building peace and creating a new state in an
ethnically divided society and fragmented international order. The
book offers a critical account of the international missions in
Kosovo and traces the effectiveness of fluid forms of
interventionism. It also explores the co-optation of peace by
ethno-nationalist groups and explores how their contradictory
perception of peace produced an ungovernable peace, which has been
manifested with intractable ethnic antagonisms, state capture, and
ignorance of the root causes, drivers, and consequences of the
conflict. Under these conditions, prospects for emancipatory peace
have not come from external actors, ethno-nationalist elite, and
critical resistance movements, but from local and everyday acts of
peace formation and agnostic forms for reconciliation. The book
proposes an emancipatory agenda for peace in Kosovo embedded on
post-ethnic politics and joint commitments to peace, a
comprehensive agenda for reconciliation, people-centred security,
and peace-enabling external assistance.
This new handbook provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary
overview of the theoretical and empirical aspects of state
recognition in international politics. Although the recognition of
states plays a central role in shaping global politics, it remains
an under-researched and widely dispersed subject. Coherently and
innovatively structured, the handbook brings together a group of
international scholars who examine the most important theoretical
and comparative perspectives on state recognition, including
debates about pathways to secession and self-determination, the
broad range of actors and strategies that shape the recognition of
states and a significant number of contemporary case studies. The
handbook is organised into four key sections: Theoretical and
normative perspectives Pathways to independent statehood Actors,
forms and the process of state recognition Case studies of
contemporary state recognition This handbook will be of great
interest to students of foreign policy, international relations,
international law, comparative politics and area studies. Chapter
19 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access
PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license
https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-State-Recognition/Visoka-Doyle-Newman/p/book/9780815354871
Despite calls for the decolonisation of knowledge, scholars who
come from conflict-affected societies remained marginalised,
excluded from the examination of the politics and impacts of
liberal interventionism. This edited volume gives local scholars a
platform from which they critically examine different aspects of
liberal interventionism and statebuilding in Kosovo. Drawing on
situational epistemologies and grounded approaches, the chapters in
this book interrogate a wide range of themes, including: the
politics of local resistance; the uneven relationship between
international statebuilders and local subjects; faking of local
ownership of security sector reform and the rule of law; heuristic
and practical limits of interventionism, as well as the subjugated
voices in statebuilding process, such as minorities and women. The
book finds that the local is not antidote to the liberal, and that
local perspectives are not monolithic. Yet, local critiques of
statebuilding do not seek to generate replicable knowledge; rather
they prefer generating situational and context-specific knowledge
be that to resolve problems or uncover the unresolved problems. The
book seeks to contribute to critical peace and conflict studies by
(re)turning the local turn to local scholars who come from
conflict-affected societies and who have themselves experienced the
transition from war to peace. This book, voted one of the top 10
books of 2020 by International Affairs, is essential reading for
students and scholars of peace- and state-building, conflict
studies and international relations.
In addition to being a major area of research within International
Relations, peacebuilding and statebuilding is a major policy area
within the UN and other international and regional organizations.
It is also a concern of international financial institutions,
including the World Bank, and a significant factor in the foreign
and security policies of many established and emerging democracies.
Peacebuilding and statebuilding are among the main approaches for
preventing, managing, and mitigating global insecurities; dealing
with the humanitarian consequences of civil wars; and expanding
democracy and neoliberal economic regimes. Peace formation is a
relatively new concept, addressing how local actors work in
parallel to international and national projects, and helps shape
the legitimacy of peace processes and state reform. The Oxford
Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation
serves as an essential guide to this vast intellectual and policy
landscape. It offers a systematic overview of conceptual
foundations, political implications, and tensions at the global,
regional, and local levels, as well as key policies, practices,
examples, and discourses underlining all segments of peacebuilding
and statebuilding praxis. Approaching peacebuilding from
disciplinary perspectives across the social sciences, the Handbook
is organized around four major thematic sections. Section one
explores how peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation is
conceived by different disciplines and IR approaches, thus offering
an overview of the conceptual bedrock of major theories and
approaches. Section two situates these approaches among other major
global issues, including globalization, civil society, terrorism,
and technology to illustrate their global, regional, and local
resonance. Section three looks at key themes in the field,
including peace agreements, democratization, security reform, human
rights, environment, and culture. Finally, section four looks at
key features of everyday and civil society peace formation
processes, both in theory and in practice.
As we face new challenges from climate change and the rise of
populism in Western politics and beyond, there is little doubt that
we are entering a new configuration of world politics. Driven by
nostalgia for past certainties or fear of what is coming next,
references to normalcy have been creeping into political discourse,
with people either vying for a return to a past normalcy or coping
with the new normal. This book traces main discourses and practices
associated with normalcy in world politics. Visoka and Lemay-Hebert
mostly focus on how dominant states and international organizations
try to manage global affairs through imposing normalcy over fragile
states, restoring normalcy over disaster-affected states, and
accepting normalcy over suppressive states. They show how
discourses and practices come together in constituting
normalization interventions and how in turn they play in shaping
the dynamics of continuity and change in world politics.
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