Unrecognized States in the International System

Nina Caspersen is Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University. Her research interests are primarily centred on ethnic conflicts in the Balkans and the Caucasus, dynamics within ethnic groups and internal developments in unrecognised states. She has published a number of journal articles relating to this research and is a frequent presenter at international conferences and workshops.Gareth Stansfield is Professor of Middle East Politics and Director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. His current research is on the political development of post-2003 Iraq, in particular the interaction of religious and ethnic groups and conceptions of nationalism and federalism, and he is series editor of the Exeter Studies in Ethno Politics series with Routledge.

• Introduction: Unrecognized States in the International System Part 1: Concepualizing Unrecognized States 1. Theorizing Unrecognized States: Sovereignty, Secessionism, and Political Economy 2. Complex Terrains: Unrecognized States and Globalization 3. International Actions and the Making and Unmaking of Unrecognized States 4. What do Unrecognized States Tell us About Sovereignty? Part 2: The Interactions of the Recognized and the Unrecognized State 5. States without Sovereignty: Imitating Democratic Statehood 6. After the War Ends: Violence and Viability of Post-Soviet Unrecognized States 7. ‘Seperatism is the Mother of Terrorism’: Internationalizing the Security Discourse on Unrecognized States 8. The Foreign Policies of Unrecognized States Part III: Conflict Management and Unrecognized States 9. The Limits of International Conflict Management in the Case of Abkhazia and South Ossetia 10. The Politics of Unrecognized States and the Business of International Peace Mediation: Enablers or Hindrance for Conflict Resolution? 11. Reintegrating Unrecognized States: Internationalizing Frozen Conflicts. Appendix 1: Maps of Unrecognized States