dc.contributor.author | Bouris, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Fernandez-Molina, I | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-08T12:39:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-06-05 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article examines contested state diplomatic practices with the aim to challenge
structural legal-institutional accounts of these actors’ international engagement, which
are unsatisfactory in explaining change and acknowledging their agency. Considering
contested states as liminal international actors, their diplomatic practices stand out for
their hybridity in transcending the state vs. non-state diplomacy dichotomy as well as
their structure-generating properties in enabling social forms of international recognition
– absent legal recognition. The concept is empirically applied to examine the everyday
interaction between the representatives of Palestine and Western Sahara and the EU
institutions in Brussels. It is argued that there has been a renewal and expansion of the
Palestinian and Sahrawi repertoires of diplomatic practices vis-à-vis the EU, which has
entailed growing hybridisation. Innovation originated in more “transformative”
diplomatic practices capitalising on the contested states’ own political inbetweenness,
which established relations that contributed to constituting and endogenously
empowering them in the Brussels milieu. The way was thus paved for more
“reproductive” diplomatic practices that mimic traditional state diplomacy to gain
prominence. The impact achieved on “high politics” demonstrates how bottom-up
practice-led change may allow contested states to compensate for their meagre material
capabilities and punch above their structural weight in international politics. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 05 June 2018. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/ips/oly006 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/31364 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) for International Studies Association | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Under embargo until 05 June 2020 in compliance with publisher policy. | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) (2018). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Studies Association. All rights reserved. | |
dc.subject | Contested states | en_GB |
dc.subject | diplomacy | en_GB |
dc.subject | practice theory | en_GB |
dc.subject | liminality | en_GB |
dc.subject | hybridity | en_GB |
dc.subject | recognition | en_GB |
dc.subject | European Union | en_GB |
dc.subject | Palestine | en_GB |
dc.subject | Western Sahara | en_GB |
dc.title | Contested States, Hybrid Diplomatic Practices and the Everyday Quest for Recognition | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 1749-5679 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from OUP via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | International Political Sociology | en_GB |