Politics of International Interaction With De Facto States - Conceptualising Engagement Without Recognition

List of contents

1. A Conceptual Framework for Engagement with de facto States James Ker-Lindsay and Eiki Berg 2. ‘Statehood’, ‘de facto Authorities’ and ‘Occupation’: Contested Concepts and the EU’s Engagement in its European Neighbourhood Bruno Coppieters 3. The Stigmatisation of de facto States: Disapproval and ‘Engagement without Recognition’ James Ker-Lindsay 4. Recognition, Status Quo or Reintegration: Engagement with de facto States Nina Caspersen 5. Quest for Survival and Recognition: Insights into the Foreign Policy Endeavours of the Post-Soviet de facto States Eiki Berg and Kristel Vits 6. Regional Organizations and Secessionist Entities: Analysing Practices of the EU and the OSCE in Post-Soviet Protracted Conflict Areas Vera Axyonova and Andrea Gawrich 7. Sovereignty and Engagement without Recognition: Explaining the Failure of Conflict Resolution in Cyprus George Kyris

About the author

Eiki Berg is Professor of International Relations at the University of Tartu, Estonia.
James Ker-Lindsay is Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Summary

This comprehensive volume explores the ways in which recognised states and international organisations interact with secessionist ‘de facto states’, and analyses the issues and problems that this policy of ‘engagement without recognition’ inevitably raises. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Ethnopolitics.

Product details

• Authors: Eiki (University of Tartu Berg, Eiki Ker-Lindsay Berg
• Assisted by: Eiki Berg (Editor), Berg Eiki (Editor), James Ker-Lindsay (Editor), Ker-Lindsay James (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780367139858
• ISBN: 978-0-367-13985-8
• No. of pages: 114
• Series: Association for the Study of Nationalities; Association for the Study of Nationalities; Ethnopolitics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, International Relations, Political structure & processes, Revolutionary groups & movements, Political structure and processes, Revolutionary groups and movements, Regional, state and other local government, Regional government, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions