Routledge Studies in Statehood
About the Book Series
This series provides a forum for critical, innovative, and interdisciplinary work that examines statehood in contemporary world politics. The series publishes titles which examine the ontological, political, legal, ethical, economic, practical, and everyday aspects of statehood, from state creation, sovereignty, diplomatic recognition, governance, territory, foreign policy and external relations to security, borders, identity, and citizenship. Titles in the series seek to problematise existing perspectives on statehood and offer new theoretical and policy alternatives to re-envisage statehood in the twenty-first century.
States, Secessionists and De Facto Control after Separatist Wars: Strategies for Controlling Territories and Populations after Conflict
1st Edition
By Nicholas Barker
May 05, 2025
This book investigates how states and secessionists seek to resolve questions of de facto control in the aftermath of secessionist wars. This work presents a study of the termination and aftermath of separatist wars, using two in-depth case studies – the Georgia-Abkhazia conflict (1994-2006) and ...
The European Union and Everyday Statebuilding: The Case of Kosovo
1st Edition
By Ramadan Ilazi
December 18, 2024
This book examines the European Union’s everyday statebuilding practices, using the case of Kosovo as an example of how it uses informal practices to influence local actors. The objective of the book is to explain how the EU operates as a statebuilding actor in the everyday context, outside its ...
Sovereignty through Practice: Multiscalarity, Reflexivity, and Interdisciplinarity
1st Edition
Edited
By Elia Bescotti, Jon-Wyatt Matlack
November 13, 2024
This book explores how actors practise sovereignty as a force in a multiscalar context. Among the various power structures that perform sovereignty, such as the head of state, a legislative body, or the military, one aspect is clear: the practice of sovereignty relies upon people at multiple levels...
Variations on Sovereignty: Contestations and Transformations from around the World
1st Edition
Edited
By Hannes Černy, Janis Grzybowski
October 07, 2024
This edited book explores diverse contestations and transformations of sovereignty around the world. Sovereignty plays a central role in modern political thought and practice, but it also remains fundamentally contested. Depending on the context and perspective, it seems either omnipresent or ...
Ethnofederalism in Cyprus: Territory, Power and Security
1st Edition
By Pavlos I. Koktsidis
August 01, 2024
This book develops a holistic understanding of the intrinsic security concerns which lie at the heart of the protracted conflict in Cyprus. This work offers a well-grounded account of intractability in Cyprus by unfolding the rationale and prevalence of competitive approaches held by Greek and ...
Conflict Resolution in De Facto States: The Practice of Engagement without Recognition
1st Edition
By Sebastian Relitz
May 27, 2024
This book explores the challenges of conflict resolution in protracted conflicts and conceptualises and analyses the practice of engagement without recognition in de facto states. Increasingly, engagement without recognition is seen as a promising approach to conflict resolution in de facto states...
Kurdistan’s De Facto Statehood: A New Explanatory Framework
1st Edition
By Kamaran Palani
May 27, 2024
This book explains the dynamics and nature of Iraqi Kurdistan’s de facto statehood since its inception in 1991, in particular the vicissitudes de facto independence since then. The work examines de facto statehood in Kurdistan, and uncovers the dynamics of de facto statehood in Kurdistan at ...
Incomplete Secession after Unresolved Conflicts: Political Order and Escalation in the Post-Soviet Space
1st Edition
By Ana Maria Albulescu
May 31, 2023
This book analyses cases of incomplete secession after separatist wars and what this means for relations between central governments and de facto states. The work explores the interplay between violence and power by examining the micro-dynamics inherent in the process of escalation between ...