Three concepts of recognition

Bartelson, Jens

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“…In the early days of international society practices of recognition were ‘everyday forms of behavior into which the recognition which states granted each other was embedded’ (Ringmar, , p. 447). Over time, these practices generated boundaries between those perceived as capable of conforming to the rules established by the European states and the Asian, African and American states that were not (Bartelson, , pp. 121–2; Ringmar, , pp.…”

Section: The Social Status Of the Eumentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Social Status of the European Union

Røren

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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In this article I analyse the EU's social status in world politics. I argue that recognition grants the EU both club and positional status. Drawing on existing literature on status in international relations, I conceptualize the diplomatic corps of various polities as the embodied recognition of their positional status in world politics. To indicate and measure the positional status of the EU, I applied social network analysis to data on the exchange of embassies from 1960 to 2010. This methodology allows for consistent longitudinal comparisons of standing between heterogeneous polities in world politics. The results indicate that the EU's rise in the status hierarchy has been meteoric since 1960. However, fear of status congestion and status dilution among countries has thwarted the EU's full inclusion into the various status clubs of nation-states. I show that due to its lack of full club status the EU struggles to convert its high positional status into influence.

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Section: The Social Status Of the Eumentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Social Status of the European Union

Røren

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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“…12 Some argue that the concept serves to reproduce the current system while others counter that it will gradually propel the international system from a primitive state of war into a morally mature community of all mankind. 13 To be sure, one may wonder how mutual recognition can be attributed so much power, altogether constitutive, reproductive, and transformative. 14 In my view, it is precisely this enigmatic quality, its apparent versatility that calls for apprehending mutual recognition through many disciplinary lenses and in many different contexts-a kind of cognitive triangulation.…”

Section: Modernity or Mutual Recognition Enshrinedmentioning

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Mutual Recognition: Promise and Denial, from Sapiens to Brexit

Nicolaïdis

2017

Current Legal Problems

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This contribution argues that the European crisis in general and Brexit in particular, can be seen to reflect the partial loss of the ethos of a principle that has been at the heart of the EU, namely mutual recognition. While familiar to legal scholars as a norm governing the integration of markets and the management of conflicts of law, the essay seeks to show how this principle bears on our current European predicament as a philosophical concept and a form of governance between states before dwelling on the intricacies of mutual recognition in the EU single market. Because recognition is sought, obtained or denied in all social spheres, every discipline has its own complex variation on this simple theme requiring to connect legal theory with anthropology, philosophy, history, sociology and international relations. The essay spans all these fields through eight takes (mutual Recognition shunned, invented, enshrined, constitutionalised, managed, 'on trial', lost, and for grabs) which can also be interpreted as different time horizons (from Sapiens to Brexit through Westphalia). Each take provides a variation on what is referred to as "mutual recognition paradox", eg how to increase mutual engagement and mutual deference at the very same time.

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“…It can establish a 'shared identity' (Wendt, 2003) or at least a mutual empathy (Strombom, 2014) that, even if begun as a violent struggle, has the potential to establish a better understanding of the other and so of a more harmonious world. This view that recognition can drive the world towards more peaceful outcomes is what Bartelson (2013) calls its 'moral claim'.…”

Section: Recognition and Irmentioning

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Creating a state: A Kleinian reading of recognition in Zimbabwe’s regional relationships

Gallagher

2015

European Journal of International Relations

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This article contributes to recent debates about mutual recognition between states, and, more broadly, to discussions of the role of emotion in International Relations. It challenges 'moral claims' made in some of the literature that interstate recognition leads to a progressive erosion of difference or a pooling of identity, and underlying assumptions that recognition constitutes a stage in the development of states that have already established internal coherence. Instead, it claims that processes of recognition are fractious and unstable, characterised by aggression and self-assertion, as well as affection and the creation of a 'we-feeling', and that such processes are an enduring feature of state identity. Using the case of Zimbabwe -a state that is clearly fractured, with an apparently insecure collective identity -the article explores how recognition both challenges and reinforces state selfhood through dynamics that are bumpy, intense and unstable. It moves on to develop a theoretical interpretation of these dynamics by drawing on the work of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, showing links between individual psychic anxiety and collective need for a state that exists uneasily but inextricably in relation to others. The article concludes that international recognition works as a way both to establish and to challenge state coherence.

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Three concepts of recognition

Cited by 67 publications

References 42 publications

On the Social Status of the European Union

On the Social Status of the European Union

Mutual Recognition: Promise and Denial, from Sapiens to Brexit

Creating a state: A Kleinian reading of recognition in Zimbabwe’s regional relationships

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