Routledge Handbook of State Recognition

<p>This new handbook provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of the theoretical and empirical aspects of state recognition in international politics.</p><p></p><p>Although the recognition of states plays a central role in shaping global politics it remains an under-researched and widely dispersed subject. Coherently and innovatively structured the handbook brings together a group of international scholars who examine the most important theoretical and comparative perspectives on state recognition including debates about pathways to secession and self-determination the broad range of actors and strategies that shape the recognition of states and a significant number of contemporary case studies. </p><p></p><p>The handbook is organised into four key sections:</p><p></p><ul> <br><br><li>Theoretical and normative perspectives</li> <br><br><li>Pathways to independent statehood</li> <br><br><li>Actors forms and the process of state recognition</li> <br><br><li>Case studies of contemporary state recognition</li> </ul><p></p><p>This handbook will be of great interest to students of foreign policy international relations international law comparative politics and area studies.</p><p></p><p><em>Chapter 19 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license </em><em>https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-State-Recognition/Visoka-Doyle-Newman/p/book/9780815354871</em></p>