Civil Society and Conflict Transformation in De Facto States

Hoch, Tomáš; Kopeček, Vincenc; Baar, Vladimír

doi:10.1080/10758216.2016.1184982

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“…I could say the same, among others, about research produced by scholars from the University of Ostrava, including Tomáš Hoch, Vincenc Kopeček, and Kateřina Ženková Rudincová, and published in Czechia (Hoch, 2011;Hoch & Kopeček, 2011;Hoch & Rudincová, 2015). Their works published in Western outlets (Hoch et al, 2017;Hoch & Kopeček, 2020;Kopeček et al, 2016) are well known among students of de facto states. Yemelianova (2015, p. 226) suggests that all written in this section can also be said about studies written and published in the post-Soviet area (and probably in other non-Western regions).…”

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Four Problems of De Facto State Studies: A Central European Perspective

Kosienkowski¹

2022

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De facto states are entities that resemble normal states, except for one difference: they lack international recognition or enjoy it only to a limited extent. Scott Pegg initiated a scholarly inquiry on these entities in 1998 when he published his seminal book, International Society and the De Facto State. Counting about twenty years after the birth of de facto state studies, scholars have started publishing their reflections on the problems that these studies face and directions for future research. I follow this reflective trend in my essay, drawing on my nearly two-decade-long experience of researching de facto states. More precisely, I discuss four problems of de facto state studies and suggest how they can be solved. These problems are as follows: 1. no consensus on a definition of a de facto state, 2. imperfect existing definitions, 3. insufficient engagement with the non-Western literature, and 4. indifference to other concepts and frameworks when studying de facto states.

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Four Problems of De Facto State Studies: A Central European Perspective

Kosienkowski¹

2022

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“…Finally, the focus on civil society is informed by the fact a significant number of works highlight civil society as a main interlocutor of the international community with similar conflicts (e.g. Berg and Pegg 2016;Hoch, Kopeček, and Baar 2017;Kyris 2013), but this article adds to the discussion by more systematically exploring the link between support to civil society and unrecognised statehood.…”

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The European Union in Northern Cyprus: Conceptualising the Avoidance of Contested States

Kyris

2018

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This article explores the role of the EU in unrecognised, also known as contested, states and more specifically, how their level of international recognition and empirical statehood (i.e. government authority and control) influence the EU's engagement. By studying the case of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the article finds that the EU engagement takes the form of 'state avoidance', mostly characterised by an effort to engage without endorsing state recognition and manifested via a) sui generis management of unrecognised borders, b) informal engagement with officials of the unrecognised state, c) replacement of public authorities with non-state actors and d) extensive engagement with civil society. In this regard, the article offers a range of causal explanations that can be tested across a greater number of similar cases. What is more, I contrast state avoidance to state-building approaches evident in aspiring states with more recognition but greater deficit of empirical statehood, such as Kosovo and Palestine, and I argue for a broader conceptualisation of the phenomenon of unrecognised states, allowing for variation in both the degree of recognition and of empirical statehood. As such, the article combines a discussion of rich empirical findings and inductive concept-building that contributes to a more informed discussion and further research development, especially as far as engagement from the EU is concerned.

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Neomedievalism and International Recognition: Explaining the Level of Recognition Via Networking

Doboš

Riegl

2020

Frontiers in International Relations

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Civil Society and Conflict Transformation in De Facto States

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

Four Problems of De Facto State Studies: A Central European Perspective

Four Problems of De Facto State Studies: A Central European Perspective

The European Union in Northern Cyprus: Conceptualising the Avoidance of Contested States

Neomedievalism and International Recognition: Explaining the Level of Recognition Via Networking

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