The Politics of International Law in the Post-Soviet Space: Do Georgia, Ukraine, and Russia ‘Speak’ International Law in International Politics Differently?

Wittke, Cindy

doi:10.1080/09668136.2020.1732303

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“…The main aim of this article is (1) to explore the policies of recognition and nonrecognition by state and nonstate actors toward a university that is itself not formally a state institution and (2) to see how these policies regarding the status of the ASU affect its internationalization. Recent literature in international law (Berkes 2017; Hamid 2020; Wittke 2020) and political science (Fabry 2012; Ker-Lindsay 2012; Coppieters 2018; Bouris and Papadimitriou 2020 Wydra 2020) on the recognition and nonrecognition of statehood has broadened our understanding of the legal implications of a lack of recognition of political entities – and the way international law addresses such problems – as well as of the nature of negotiations and agreements where one of the participants or signatories is not recognized by the other as a sovereign state, but where there is nonetheless a mutual recognition of rights and duties. The latter is the case in particular in ceasefire and trade agreements with contested states (Visoka and Doyle 2015; Coppieters 2019b; Hsieh 2019).…”

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A Struggle over Recognition and Nonrecognition: The Internationalization of the Abkhaz State University

Coppieters¹

2021

Nationalities Papers

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The Abkhaz State University (ASU) is internationally isolated, despite its cooperation with universities in Russia. Georgia combines its refusal to recognize Abkhaz statehood with a policy of nonrecognition of its university, which sets the direction for other countries. But the Abkhaz policies of nonrecognition are also to be taken into account. Abkhazia opposes any form of internationalization of the ASU generating closer ties with Georgia. The article examines how the Georgian and Abkhaz policies of nonrecognition hamper the internationalization of the ASU within the European educational space. It explores a conflict on recognition and nonrecognition of status and identity, where status does not refer exclusively to statehood. In the field of higher education, European integration involves a large number of state and nonstate actors in 49 countries and a wide variety of forms of recognition and nonrecognition, ranging from the certification of individual qualifications and the publication of lists of unrecognized universities, to the setting up of joint educational programs. This integration process is largely state driven but based on the principle of the institutional autonomy of universities. Using the ASU as a case study, the way that policies on nonrecognition affect status in the field of higher education is examined.

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