Pseudo‐States as Harbingers of a new geopolitics: The example of the trans‐dniester Moldovan republic (TMR)

Kolossov, Vladimir; Ο’Loughlin, John

doi:10.1080/14650049808407612

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“…Za vmesna območja periferij, hegemonije in dominionov to neizogibno pomeni njihovo frontirizacijo. V povezavi s tem in v kontekstu centralnosti in perifernosti Kolossov in O'Loughlin (1999) ter Tunjić (2003;Filip Tunjić / Dela 33 • 2010 • 51-73 2004) uvajajo koncept mejišča (eng. limitroph), ki ga zaznamujejo gruče šibkih držav ter psevdodržav, navideznih (kvazi), uporniških in getovskih držav ter drugih šibkih državic, katerih usoda je povezana z izključevalnimi in omejevalnimi odnosi imperijskih osredij.…”

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“…Navedeni procesi so temeljišče, na katerem Kolossov in O'Loughlin (1999) dokazujeta, da »… političnega razvoja ni več mogoče razlagati z značilnostmi politične meje med dvema sosednjima državama, temveč z lokacijo, ki jo ta meja zavzema kot intrinzični element svetovnega sistema«. Iz povedanega se sama po sebi porajajo vprašanja o položaju in urejanju slovensko-hrvaške državne teritorialne meje.…”

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Slovensko-hrvaška državna meja v mejišču Evropske unije

Tunjić

2010

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Pregledni znanstveni članek COBISS 1.02Izvleček V svetu je sorazmerno malo državnih teritorialnih meja, ki bi imele le lokalni, meddržavni značaj. Avtor skuša ob Braudelovem zapisu, da »... pokrajina ni referenčni okvir raziskovanja, temveč je referenčni okvir raziskovanja le problem«, analizirati pomen slovensko-hrvaške državne meje z vidika politične geografije vmesnosti balkanske Evrope ter robnega in kontaktnega položaja teritorijev obeh držav, pri čemer njuna državna meja ostaja brez pomena in funkcije.Ključne besede: Balkan, mejišče, imperijski teritorialni sistem, frontirizacija, EU, Rusija, Turčija STATE TERRITORIAL BOUNDARY AT THE EDGE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: FRONTIERISATION OF SLOVENIA-CROATIA TERRITORY AbstractThere are relatively few of state territorial boundaries in the world being of only local, interest. Author tries, following Braudel's note that »lanscape is not referential framework of research but the referential framwork of research is only problem«, to analyse importance of Slovenia-Croatia state boundary. He does it through the political-geographic prism of betweenness of the Balkan's Europe that is of edge and contact position of territories of both countries, for what the state boundary looses both its importance and function.

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Slovensko-hrvaška državna meja v mejišču Evropske unije

Tunjić

2010

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“…In 1980s and 1990s also political geographers noticed the emergence of specific political territorial units that challenged the Westphalian system of states; however, the terminology was yet not clear, and these entities had been referred to by several somewhat confusing terms. Glassner and De Blij (1988) included unrecognised political entities under the fuzzy category of quasi-states, Releya (1998) wrote about transstate entities which he metaphorically described as "postmodern cracks in the Westphalian dam", and Kolossov and O'Loughlin (1998) used Kaplan's metaphor about "ends of the earth" and called these entities pseudo-states or quasi-states. However, the beginnings of systematic research on the phenomenon of de facto states date back to the second half of the 1990s.…”

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“…Until 2004 the image of de facto states in academic literature was quite negative. Kolossov and O'Loughlin (1998) claimed that in the post-Soviet territory the elites of unrecognised states had strong criminal backgrounds and specialised in the illegal trade of weapons, drugs, and in money laundering. Lynch (2004: 4) characterised de facto states as highly criminal environments in which local politicians were puppets in the hands of external actors.…”

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De Facto States and Democracy: The Case of Abkhazia

Kopeček

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Baar

2016

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Abstract. De-facto states constitute an interesting and important anomaly in the international system of sovereign states. No matter how successful and efficient in the administration of their territories they are, they fail to achieve international recognition. In the past, their claims for independence were based primarily on the right to national self-determination, historical continuity and claim for a remedial right to secession, based on alleged human-rights violations. Since 2005, official representatives of several de facto states have repeatedly emphasised the importance of democracy promotion in their political entities. A possible explanation of this phenomenon dwells in the belief that those states which have demonstrated their economic viability and promote the organization of a democratic state should gain their sovereignty. This article demonstrates the so called "democracy-for-recognition strategy" in the case study of Abkhazia. On the basis of the field research in Abkhazia we identify factors that promote, as well as those that obstruct the democratisation process in the country.

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“…However, the status of an unrecognized state means that such a state is deeply involved in an unresolved conflict and can potentially become the arena of a war. Usually, unrecognized states are situated in the poorest regions of the world or/and in areas that are in the throes of difficult transitions and at the zones of contact between large cultural regions ("civilizations") with mixed populations having complicated, hierarchically-organized identities, at the edges of disintegrated empires, like all four unrecognized republics in the post-Soviet space (Kolossov and O'Loughlin, 1999). 22 The continuing existence and even the multiplication of uncontrolled territories can be considered as a sign of the further fragmentation of "legitimate" states.…”

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