Shoestring Diplomacy: Aspiring States and International Lobbying for Self-Determination

Huddleston, R. Joseph

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“…The United States government trains Kurdish soldiers (Tomson, 2017), gives aid to the Kurdish military (McCleary, 2017), consults the Kurdish government (Cook, 2016), funds Kurdish non-military aid projects (KRG, 2012), and hosts hundreds of meetings with Kurdish officials every year (Huddleston, 2019). Many other states interact with Kurdish authorities in the same way.…”

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Continuous recognition: A latent variable approach to measuring international sovereignty of self-determination movements

Huddleston

2020

Journal of Peace Research

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How do self-determination groups move toward diplomatic recognition? Although recognition is the dominant activity used to understand international sovereignty, it is perhaps the most costly decision states make towards these groups. Third parties have many substantial interactions with aspiring states, building their sovereignty by other important means. I argue that our understanding of international sovereignty can be improved by conceptualizing it as a dynamic, continuous process, reflected in foreign policy decisions short of the legal recognition. I create a Bayesian latent variable model of international sovereignty, using bilateral data on diplomatic exchange, IGO voting, sanctions, military aid, and intervention in separatist conflicts. Complementing prior work on international sovereignty, my measure provides support for important theoretical expectations previously explored using only recognition as a measure of sovereignty. I find that diplomatic recognition, extant violence, separatist victory, and sour third-party–incumbent relations positively impact latent sovereignty of separatists, while concern for precedent negatively impacts it.

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Continuous recognition: A latent variable approach to measuring international sovereignty of self-determination movements

Huddleston

2020

Journal of Peace Research

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Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups

Loyle

Braithwaite

Cunningham

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International Studies Review

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Recent work in international relations has problematized state-centric assumptions of governance to explore variations in authority by a range of nonstate actors (e.g., nongovernmental organizations, criminal syndicates, gangs). This forum centers on the phenomenon of rebel group governance during civil wars and leverages the concept to advance our understanding of current theories and conceptualizations of governance. The nature of rebel organizations provides a unique opportunity for researchers to expand the state-centric focus on governance because rebel actors differ from states in their comparative position within the global state system, the contexts in which they operate, and their lack of legitimizing principles that permit consistent membership as a class of political actors. These differences allow for meaningful extensions of how we theorize and conceptualize governance beyond the state. Furthermore, variation across these differences allows our findings in the study rebel governance to speak directly to the broader literature in international relations on governance by state actors. In our introduction to this forum, we detail the ways in which rebel groups have chosen to address the central components of governance through a variety of governance strategies. We then devote three essays in the forum to the concepts of legitimacy, capacity, and territorial control. In each of the three essays, authors discuss the ways in which rebel governance problematizes and advances these concepts for the broader study of governance. In the conclusion, this forum synthesizes extant and emerging work in the field of rebel governance in order to raise new questions of the governance and state building literatures. In this way, we show how investigating governance by rebel groups in particular advances our understanding of governance more broadly.

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Functional Markets in Yemen’s War Economy

Huddleston

Wood

2021

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development

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Shoestring Diplomacy: Aspiring States and International Lobbying for Self-Determination

Cited by 3 publications

References 34 publications

Continuous recognition: A latent variable approach to measuring international sovereignty of self-determination movements

Continuous recognition: A latent variable approach to measuring international sovereignty of self-determination movements

Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups

Functional Markets in Yemen’s War Economy

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