Engagement without Recognition: A New Strategy toward Abkhazia and Eurasia's Unrecognized States

Cooley, Alexander; Mitchell, Lincoln A.

doi:10.1080/0163660x.2010.516183

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“…As mentioned above, the issue of contested statehood and its implications (and consequencesintended or unintended) for EU engagement has remained underresearched. Some scholars have focused on so-called "engagement without recognition" (Cooley and Mitchell 2010;Caspersen 2015;Ker-Lindsay 2015;Ker-Lindsay and Berg 2018). EU studies scholars have focused on the impact of integration and association Diez et al 2008), how domestic actors of contested states understand the EU (Vahl andEmerson 2004, Popescu 2007) and how their representatives interact with it (Bouris and Fernandez Molina 2018), diplomatic issues (Papadimitriou and Petrov 2012), and the EU's state-building efforts but without taking into account the specific parameter of contested statehood (Bieber 2011;Börzel 2011;Bouris 2014).…”

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Unintended Consequences of State-building Projects in Contested States: The EU in Palestine

Bouris

2019

The International Spectator

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The existing literature on state-building has focused mainly on post-conflict cases and 'conventional' examples of statehood, without taking into consideration the particularities of states that remain internally and/or externally contested. The EU's engagement in Palestinian state-building through the deployment of EUPOL COPPS and EUBAM Rafah has generated various types of unintended consequences: anticipated and unanticipated, positive and negative, desirable and undesirable, some of which fulfill and some of which frustrate the initial intention. These have important reverberations for the EU's conflict resolution strategies in Israel and Palestine, the most important being the strengthening of power imbalances and the enforcement of the status quo.

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Section: Enter Contested Statehoodmentioning

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Unintended Consequences of State-building Projects in Contested States: The EU in Palestine

Bouris

2019

The International Spectator

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“…Although positions on the question of unilateral secession and de facto statehood have hardened over the past seventy years, a lack of formal recognition does not preclude international engagement with de facto states. First articulated by in the academic literature by Cooley and Mitchell (2010), the concept of 'engagement without recognition' has generated growing scholarly and practitioner interest in recent years as the number of de facto states has increased. 3 As has been noted, there are in fact a wide variety of ways in which a state may choose to interact at an official level with a secessionist territory and yet not go so far as to extend formal recognition (Berg and Toomla 2009;Ker-Lindsay 2015).…”

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The Stigmatisation of de facto States: Disapproval and ‘Engagement without Recognition’

Ker‐Lindsay

2018

Ethnopolitics

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Traditionally, the international community has rejected unilateral declarations of independence. As a result, de facto statesterritories that have declared independence but are not members of the United Nationshave been stigmatised. However, not all secessionist de facto states are treated equally. Whereas some are wholly shunned, others enjoy a high degree of international interaction with the UN members that do not recognise them. This study explores why this is so and shows how levels of disapproval shapes processes of engagement with non-recognising states. It notes that responses to cases of unilateral secession by states, and thus the stigma attached to de facto states, are shaped by three broad factors: systemic factors, contextual factors and national factors. Crucially, it is shown that the stigmatisation of individual de facto states can change over time and circumstance, and with it the degree of engagement without recognition enjoyed by that de facto state can vary.

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“…The subsequent de facto state literature has arguably made significant progress expanding and refining the ways in which these entities can be engaged positively without recognizing their claims to sovereign independence. Such strategies are increasingly labeled "engagement without recognition" (Cooley & Mitchell, 2010;Ker-Lindsay, 2015;Berg & Pegg, 2017 forthcoming).…”

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Twenty Years of de facto State Studies: Progress, Problems, and Prospects

Pegg¹

2017

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics

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It has been almost 20 years since the publication of International Society and the De Facto State by Scott Pegg in 1998, the first book-length substantive theoretical attempt to investigate the phenomenon of de facto states—secessionist entities that control territory, provide governance, receive popular support, persist over time, and seek widespread recognition of their proclaimed sovereignty and yet fail to receive it. Even though most de facto states are relatively small and fragile actors, in the intervening years the study of de facto or contested or unrecognized statehood has expanded dramatically. The de facto state literature has contributed significantly to the growing recognition that the international system is far more variegated than is commonly perceived. An initial focus on the external relations of de facto states has increasingly given way to a newer focus on their internal dynamics and domestic state-building processes and on how a lack of sovereign recognition conditions but does not prohibit their democratic, institutional, and political development. Perhaps most notably, there has been an explosion in detailed empirical research based on original data, which has greatly enriched our understanding of these entities. Alas, the subfield of de facto state studies is also characterized by recurrent problems. There has been an extensive proliferation of different terms used to describe these entities, and much fighting has erupted over precise definitions, resulting in limited scholarly progress. Fundamentally, there remains a continued failure to reach agreement on the number of these entities that exist or have existed since 1945. The nuanced and empirically rich academic literature has also largely failed to advance journalists or policymakers’ understanding of de facto states. Yet, the prospects for de facto state studies remain bright. More diverse comparative work, renewed attention to how engagement without recognition might facilitate the participation of unrecognized entities in international politics, a renewed focus on parent state strategies, and increased attention to de facto states and conflict resolution are areas deserving of greater scholarly attention.

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Engagement without Recognition: A New Strategy toward Abkhazia and Eurasia's Unrecognized States

Cited by 48 publications

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Unintended Consequences of State-building Projects in Contested States: The EU in Palestine

Unintended Consequences of State-building Projects in Contested States: The EU in Palestine

The Stigmatisation of de facto States: Disapproval and ‘Engagement without Recognition’

Twenty Years of de facto State Studies: Progress, Problems, and Prospects

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