Acting Like a State - Kosovo and the Everyday Making of Statehood

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.

List of contents

1. Becoming a Sovereign State, 2. The Everyday Making of Statehood , 3. Crafting Statehood, 4. Writing Sovereignty, 5. Performing Sovereignty, 6. Entangling Sovereignty, 7. The Price of Statehood

About the author

Gëzim Visoka is Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland. He is author of several books and numerous journal articles on international intervention, peacebuilding, foreign policy, and state recognition.

Summary

Analysing diplomatic discourse, performance, and entangled agency, this work provides the first account of Kosovo’s everyday making of statehood.

Product details

• Authors: Gezim Visoka, Gëzim Visoka, Gezim (Dublin City University Visoka
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781032095332
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3209533-2
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Interventions
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Kosovo, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Peace studies & conflict resolution