TY  - GEN
TI  - Politics of International Recognition: The Case of Aspirant States
AU  - Mehrabi, Wais
PY  - 2018
PB  - CORE Scholar
KW  - Department of Political Science
KW  - International Relations
KW  - Comparative
KW  - Social Research
KW  - International Law
KW  - Religion
KW  - international recognition
KW  - aspirant States
KW  - de facto states
KW  - Quantitative Analysis
KW  - vulnerability
KW  - democratic peace theory
KW  - Abkhazia
KW  - Palestine
KW  - Somaliland
KW  - Transnistria
KW  - Northern Cyprus
KW  - Taiwan
KW  - Western Sahara
KW  - Social and Behavioral Sciences
AB  - Separatist polities that have managed to break away from their parent states and meet the basic criteria for statehood seek other states' formal recognition to achieve full statehood and membership of the international society. There is no established pattern to explain external recognition of statehood empirically and theoretically. Kosovo declared independence and attained widespread recognition while Somaliland, despite successful separation from Somalia, has not. What factors explain states' recognition decisions, or the selective conferring of recognition? The existing literature indicates that national interests, domestic politics, systematic level factors, international legal and normative standards, regime type, and identity politics shape recognition decisions. This thesis attempted to enhance the literature by focusing on less-explored factors through a Large-N cross-national quantitative analysis of ten cases. This study argues that when all other potential explanations are constant or absent, susceptibility of states to domestic separatism, regime type, and religious affinities influence states' recognition decisions.
UR  - https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/etd_all/2204
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/base-ftwrightuniv:oai:corescholar.libraries.wright.edu:etd_all-3345
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -