Contested Statehood and EU Actorness in Kosovo, Abkhazia and Western Sahara
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3948844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gergana Noutcheva (0000-0001-9368-1578, Maastricht University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 449-471 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2018.1556641 |
| OpenAlex | W2905995324 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 39 |
What accounts for the variation in EU actorness in cases of contested statehood in the European Neighbourhood? A comparative analysis of the EU’s policies vis-à-vis three territorial conflicts – Kosovo, Abkhazia and Western Sahara – demonstrates the intricate relationship between external conditions and internal EU capability leading to substantial involvement, partial involvement or non-involvement in conflict management. Using insights from the EU actorness debate and the literatures on contested statehood and EU external governance, the paper offers a conceptualisation of the EU’s conflict management role and a contingent explanation of the EU’s varying commitment to managing conflicts in three cases of contested statehood. The paper finds that external determinants have a considerable weight in EU’s policies which existing research tends to overlook owing to its predominant focus on EU’s internal institutional procedures and instruments. It teases out the external action-enabling and action-hindering factors, in particular the external structural constraints arising from the nature of statehood contestation and the agency of other international and local players in the three conflicts in the European Neighbourhood
Conflict management · Corporate governance · Economics · European Neighbourhood Policy · European union · International trade · Member states · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
Abkhazia’s Geopolitical Roles in the Russia – European Union – Georgia Triangle
Explaining Change in the Albanian State Identity
Konfederal Bi̇rli̇k
Engagement against All Odds? Navigating Member States’ Contestation of EU Policy on Kosovo
The war in Ukraine, the EU’s geopolitical awakening and implications for the “contested neighbourhood”
A Struggle over Recognition and Nonrecognition
The EU and Contested Statehood in its Near Abroad
Political Geography and Political Science
Serbia after Yugoslavia
The Geopolitics of State Recognition in a Transitional International Order
The European Union as a Global Actor
States, Agency, and Rules
The sovereign state system as political-territorial ideal
Interview with Ambassador Albert Rohan, Deputy Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Future Status Talks for Kosovo [Canterbury, 19.10.2007]
The EU, the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Western Sahara Conflict
Sovereignty
The New Sovereignty in International Relations1
Europeanisation, Sovereignty and Contested States
Turkey and the Arab Revolutions
The West, Realism and Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo (1996–2006)
Human Rights Aspects of EU Crisis Management Operations
The EU and Military Conflict Management in Africa
The Consensus—Expectations Gap
Institutional Governance of European Neighbourhood Policy in the Wake of the Arab Spring
Russia and the Arab Spring
The External Role of the European Community
Conflicting International Policies and the Western Sahara Stalemate
Governing Europe's Neighbourhood Partners or Periphery
Interventions in the new political geographies of the European ‘neighborhood
Governance by conditionality
United We Stand? The European Union's International Actorness in the Cases of the International Criminal Court and the Kyoto Protocol
Whose Rule, Whose Law? Contested Statehood, External Leverage and the European Union's Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo
Ironies of Sovereignty
The European Union and Border Conflicts
European Union Actorness in International Institutions
Whose legitimacy? The EU and Russia in contest for the eastern neighbourhood
Undermining the transatlantic democracy agenda? The Arab Spring and Saudi Arabia's counteracting democracy strategy
The EU as a conflict manager? The case of Georgia and its implications
Contested States, Hybrid Diplomatic Practices, and the Everyday Quest for Recognition
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |